这款菜单大家需要注意HOVER状态下背景图片定位发生了变化，从而实现了这样的效果。

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Overview
　　Here are the required graphics to assembe the menu


1. Main background
　　Open the Photoshop file. Turn off the menu text Layer Group and save the main background as menu-bg.jpg.


2. Button graphics
　　Turn off the background Layer Group and leave only the menu text layers visible. Make a rectangle selection cover the "home" item, go to menu Edit > Copy Merged (Cmd + Shift + C).


　　Create a new file and take note of the file dimension (w x h), in my case the "home" graphic is 144 x 58px. Paste the "home" graphic in the new file. Go to menu Image > Canvas Size, adjust the image height x 2 (58 + 58 = 116px). Duplicate the home graphic layer and align it to the bottom. Erase the highlight strokes in the upper layer.


　　Here is how the hover effect will work. We will set the link button to 144 x 58px, when mouseover, we will shift the background image from top to bottom.


　　Repeat this step for the other buttons. You should have the follow graphics:


3. HTML source
　　When you are done with the graphics, let’s start coding. Start with an un-ordered list <ul>.
　　● note there is an id="menu" assigned to the<ul> tag
　　● an unique class name assigned to each link <a>
　　● an empty <span> tag (the purpose of this is to make the mouseover effect)

Example Source Code [www.52css.com] <ul id="menu">
   <li><a href="#" class="home">Home <span></span></a></li>
   <li><a href="#" class="about">About <span></span></a></li>
   <li><a href="#" class="rss">RSS <span></span></a></li>
</ul>
#menu
　　Reset the menu to no padding, no margin, and no list-style. Specify the width and height same dimension as the menu-bg.jpg. Then attach the menu background image. The key point to remember here is set the position property to relative.

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu {
   list-style: none;
   padding: 0;
   margin: 0;
   width: 774px;
   height: 210px;
   background: url(images/menu-bg.jpg) no-repeat;
   position: relative;
}
#menu span
　　Specify the span element to display:none (so they will be invisible by default). Specify position:absolute, so we can place the mouseover GIF image on exact position.

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu span {
   display: none;
   position: absolute;
}
#menu a
　　The key point here is the text-indent property. We specify the text-indent property with a negative value (-900%), so the text will be hidden.

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu a {
   display: block;
   text-indent: -900%;
   position: absolute;
   outline: none;
}
#menu a:hover
　　When mouseover the link, we want to shift the background image from top to bottom.

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu a:hover {
   background-position: left bottom;
}
#menu a:hover span
　　When mouseover the link, we want the span element to display:block.

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu a:hover span {
   display: block;
}
#menu .home
　　Specify the width, height, and background image. Since we already specified all <a> element postition:absolute in previous step, now just say where the .home button should be by specifying the left and top property.

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu .home {
   width: 144px;
   height: 58px;
   background: url(images/home.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 96px;
   top: 73px;
}
#menu .home span
　　Here we are specifying the width, height, background, and position of the span element of .home (mouseover GIF image)

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu .home span {
   width: 86px;
   height: 14px;
   background: url(images/home-over.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 28px;
   top: -20px;
}
#menu .about
　　Copy the .home rules and rename them to .about. Now just change the width, height, background, left, and top property.

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu .about {
   width: 131px;
   height: 51px;
   background: url(images/about.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 338px;
   top: 97px;
}
#menu .about span {
   width: 40px;
   height: 12px;
   background: url(images/about-over.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 44px;
   top: 54px;
}
#menu .rss
　　Repeat this step for .rss

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu .rss {
   width: 112px;
   height: 47px;
   background: url(images/rss.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 588px;
   top: 94px;
}
#menu .rss span {
   width: 92px;
   height: 20px;
   background: url(images/rss-over.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 26px;
   top: -20px;
}
All in one:

 Example Source Code [www.52css.com] #menu {
   list-style: none;
   padding: 0;
   margin: 0;
   width: 774px;
   height: 210px;
   background: url(images/menu-bg.jpg) no-repeat;
   position: relative;
}
#menu span {
   display: none;
   position: absolute;
}
#menu a {
   display: block;
   text-indent: -900%;
   position: absolute;
   outline: none;
}
#menu a:hover {
   background-position: left bottom;
}
#menu a:hover span {
   display: block;
}

#menu .home {
   width: 144px;
   height: 58px;
   background: url(images/home.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 96px;
   top: 73px;
}
#menu .home span {
   width: 86px;
   height: 14px;
   background: url(images/home-over.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 28px;
   top: -20px;
}

#menu .about {
   width: 131px;
   height: 51px;
   background: url(images/about.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 338px;
   top: 97px;
}
#menu .about span {
   width: 40px;
   height: 12px;
   background: url(images/about-over.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 44px;
   top: 54px;
}
#menu .rss {
   width: 112px;
   height: 47px;
   background: url(images/rss.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 588px;
   top: 94px;
}
#menu .rss span {
   width: 92px;
   height: 20px;
   background: url(images/rss-over.gif) no-repeat;
   left: 26px;
   top: -20px;
}