My css has this:

.highlight {
background-color: #FFFF00;
color: #000;
}

and that works just fine, but what I want to accomplish is having a some links highlighted in a highlight 'block' one link underneath the next (in menu form)...How is that done? All I keep getting is every other line is showing the page background color...I used to know the trick, but I forgot...Someone care to share?

Thanks.

I'm confused by what you're asking, but if it's a menu you're looking for, usually using a UL list is the best way to get the block look..

CSS Code:

.menu{
border: 1px solid grey;
background-color: white;
border-bottom: 0;
width: 200px;
}

.menu ul{
list-style-type: none;
}

.menu a{
display: block;
padding: 5px;
width: 190px;
color: #000000;
border-bottom: 1px solid grey;
}

.menu a:hover{
background-color: #FFFF00;
color: #000000;
}

<ul class="menu">
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
</ul>

You can also add the following code to your piece of css, but if the link is in a paragraph, it may mess up the alignment a little bit.

.highlight {
background-color: #FFFF00;
color: #000;
padding: 5px;
}

Brian I hope this can help you because I am real new to CSS, and I think what you are asking is what took me several weeks to figure out among other things. I have two lists, one vertical with many links, one link below the other link and the other list is horizontal and it works, the horizontal list is below the vertical list. Originally with the vertical list I had a huge space between each link, didn't look good. I ended up going to w3 schools working with the information trying to apply it to my page, I will supply the code which I used and the links.

CSS:

ul
{
list-style-type:none;
padding:0;
margin:0;
font: 1em bold Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: 1em 0;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: left;
margin-left: 4px;

}
li
{

HTML:

<ul>
<li><a href="http://urladdress">name of link</a></li>
<li><a href="http://urladdress">name of link</a></li>
(so on and so forth)
</ul>

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.a...ckground-image

Hope this helps you......

Yep, just what I was looking for, I appreciate both of your replies!

Thanks