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HTML

<nav class="pagedMenu">
    <ul style="font-size: 28px;">
        <li class="" style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="#">Link 1</a>
        </li>
        <li class="" style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="#">Link 2</a>
        </li>
        <li class="" style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="#">Link 3</a>
        </li>
        </li>
    </ul>
</nav>
<div id="pagination"> <a href="#" id="prevPage" class="hidden">Previous</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#" id="nextPage" class="hidden">Next</a>
 <span id="msg"></span>

</div>

CSS

.hidden {
    display: none;
}
body {
    font: normal 1.0em Arial, sans-serif;
}
nav.pagedMenu {
    color: red;
    font-size: 2.0em;
    line-height: 1.0em;
    width: 8em;
    position: fixed;
    top: 50px;
}
nav.pagedMenu ul {
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
nav.pagedMenu ul li {
    height: 1.0em;
    padding: 0.15em;
    position: relative;
    border-top-right-radius: 0em;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 0em;
    -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 220ms, background-color 200ms, color 500ms;
    transition: transform 220ms, background-color 200ms, color 500ms;
}
nav.pagedMenu ul li.hovered {
    -webkit-transform: translateX(1.5em);
    transform: translateX(1.5em);
}
nav ul li:hover a {
    transition: color, 1200ms;
    color: red;
}
nav.pagedMenu ul li span {
    display:block;
    font-family: Arial;
    position: absolute;
    font-size:1em;
    line-height: 1.25em;
    height:1.0em;
    top:0;
    bottom:0;
    margin:auto;
    right: 0.01em;
    color: #F8F6FF;
}
a {
    color: gold;
    transition: color, 1200ms;
    text-decoration: none;
}
#pagination, #prevPage, #nextPage {
    font-size: 1.0em;
    color: gold;
    line-height: 1.0em;
    padding-top: 250px;
    padding-left: 5px;
}

JavaScript

$(function () {
    $('nav ul li').click(function (e) {
        //Set the aesthetics (similar to :hover)
        $('nav ul li').removeClass('hovered');
        $(this).addClass('hovered');
    });
});