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HTML

<div id="divMenuWrapper1" class="divMenuWrapper1">
    <div id="hoverli">
        <ul class="vertical-list">
        <div class="lbtn">
            <center>Travel</center>
        </div>
        <div id="actions_menu" class="file_menu">
            <div><a href="#file">United States</a></div>
            <div><a href="#file">Great Britian</a></div>
            <div><a href="#file">Paris</a></div>

        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</ul>

CSS

.lbtn
{  

    outline: 0;
    padding: 5px 12px;
    display: block;
    color: #9fa8b0;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #1f272b;
    border: 1px solid #1c252b;
    border-radius: 3px;
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    background: #232B30; /* old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #3D4850 3%, #313d45 4%, #232B30 100%); /* firefox */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(3%,#3D4850), color-stop(4%,#313d45), color-stop(100%,#232B30)); /* webkit */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#3D4850', endColorstr='#232B30',GradientType=0 ); /* ie */
    box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); /* CSS3 */
    -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); /* Firefox */
    -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); /* Safari, Chrome */
}


.lbtn:active {
    background-position: 0 top;
    position: relative;
    top: 1px;
    color: #fff;
    padding: 6px 12px 4px;
    background: #20282D; /* old browsers */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #20282D 3%, #252E34 51%, #222A30 100%); /* firefox */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(3%,#20282D), color-stop(51%,#252E34), color-stop(100%,#222A30)); /* webkit */
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#20282D', endColorstr='#222A30',GradientType=0 ); /* ie */
    -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1); /* Firefox */
    -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1); /* Safari, Chrome */
    box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1); /* CSS3 */
}



.divMenuWrapper1
{
    height: 25px;
    width: 75px;
}

.file_menu 
{
    display:none;
    width:125px;
    border: 1px solid #1c1c1c;
    background-color: white;
    position:relative;
    z-index:100000;
}

.file_menu div 
{
    background-color: black;
    font-size:10pt;
}

.file_menu div a 
{
    color:white; 
    text-decoration:none;...

JavaScript

$("#hoverli").hover(
    function () {
        $('#actions_menu').finish().slideDown('fast');
    },
    function () {
        $('#actions_menu').finish().slideUp('fast');
    }
);