Dropline menu

While learning I wanted to create a horizontal menu. This fiddle contains the code for the same.

by Avdhut Sonpethkar

HTML

<div id="menucontainer">
    <ul id="hmenu">
        <li class="parent_menu"><a href="#">Home</a>

        </li>
        <li class="parent_menu"><a href="#">About</a>

            <ul>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 1</a>

                </li>
              <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 2</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li class="parent_menu"><a href="#">Contact Us</a>

            <ul>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 1</a>
                </li>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 2</a>
                </li>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 3</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li class="parent_menu"><a href="#">Information</a>
            <ul>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 1</a>
               </li>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 2</a>
                </li>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 3</a>
                </li>
                <li class="child_menu"><a href="#">Test 4</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

CSS

/*
Techonolgy Quest;

creating a horizontal Dropline menu is simple.
Following id will define the dimensions for the menu, margin, padding width, height.
For the drop line menu the position is added in this class.
Its not necessary to add position
*/
 #menucontainer {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100px;
    position;
    relative;
}
#menucontainer ul {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    list-style: none;
    width: 600px;
    height:40px;
}
/* Following selector will define the style for individual parent menu. The following style gives them a look when the menus are not selected.
note that the position proerty is not set.
*/
 #menucontainer ul li.parent_menu {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 10px;
    background-color:#69A9B1;
    display: inline;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    border-right: 3px solid #6A91A8;
}
/* 
Style for the anchor tag defined in the parent. 
*/
 #menucontainer ul li.parent_menu a {
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    background-color:transparent;
    display: inline;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-family:"Times New Roman", "Arabic";
    font-size: 20px;
    color: #E3E3C0;
    line-height: 50px;
}
/* The hover effect is defined using the below selectors
For the background-color opacity is used to create a semi-transperant look as a hover effect
*/
 #menucontainer ul li.parent_menu:hover {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 10px;
    opacity: 0.8;
    background-color:#69A9B1;
    display: inline;
    border-right:3px solid #6A91A8;
}
/*
The following class will define the style for anchor tag in the 

*/
 #menucontainer ul li.parent_menu:hover a {
    list-style: none;
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    margin-right: 10px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    background-color:transparent;
    display: inline;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-family:"Times New Roman", "Arabic";
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