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HTML

<div id="navbarcontainer">
    <ul>
        <li id="left" class="current">
            <a id="current">Home</a></li>
        <li class="dependant1">
            <a id="dependant1">Services</a></li>
        <li id="right" class="dependant2">
            <a id="dependant2">Contact</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

<script src="https://raw.github.com/jquery/jquery-color/master/jquery.color.js"></script>

CSS

#navbarcontainer {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 50px;
background: #01216D;
}

#navbarcontainer ul {
    clear: both;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
}

#navbarcontainer li {
    display: inline-block;
    height: 50px;
    width: 100px;
    list-style: none;
    text-align: center;
    -moz-transition: .5s;
    -o-transition: .5s;
    -webkit-transition: .5s;
    transition: .5s;
    /* Firefox 4 */
    /* Opera */
    /* Safari and Chrome */
}

    #navbarcontainer ul li a {
        text-decoration: none;
        line-height: 50px;
        width: 100px;
        font-size: 20px;
        font-family: Calibri;
        cursor: pointer;
    }

#left {
    margin-right: 40px;
    margin-left: 20px;
}

#right {
    margin-left: 40px;
}

.current {
    background: #fff;
}

#current {
    color: #01216D;
font-weight: bold;
}

#dependant1, #dependant2 {
   color: #fff;
}

JavaScript

$("#dependant1").hover(function () {
				    $('.dependant1').stop().animate({"background-color": '#fff' }, "slow");
				    $('#dependant1').stop().animate({color: '#01216D', 'font-weight': 'bold'}, "slow");
				}, function () {
				    $('.dependant1').stop().animate({"background-color": '#01216D' }, "slow");
				    $('#dependant1').stop().animate({color: '#fff', 'font-weight': 'normal'}, "slow");
				});