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HTML

<ul>
    <li><a href="#">asd</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">qwe</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">asdqwe</a></li>
</ul>

CSS

ul {
    overflow: hidden;
}
ul li {
    color: #fff;
    border-top: 1px #91b7ce solid;
    border-bottom: 1px #91b7ce solid; 
    min-width: 150px;
    height: 100px;
    -webkit-transform: skew(20deg);
       -moz-transform: skew(20deg);
         -o-transform: skew(20deg);
    list-style:none;
    float: left;
    
    
background: rgb(30,87,153); /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(30,87,153,1) 0%, rgba(41,137,216,1) 50%, rgba(32,124,202,1) 51%, rgba(125,185,232,1) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(30,87,153,1)), color-stop(50%,rgba(41,137,216,1)), color-stop(51%,rgba(32,124,202,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(125,185,232,1))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(30,87,153,1) 0%,rgba(41,137,216,1) 50%,rgba(32,124,202,1) 51%,rgba(125,185,232,1) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(30,87,153,1) 0%,rgba(41,137,216,1) 50%,rgba(32,124,202,1) 51%,rgba(125,185,232,1) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(30,87,153,1) 0%,rgba(41,137,216,1) 50%,rgba(32,124,202,1) 51%,rgba(125,185,232,1) 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  rgba(30,87,153,1) 0%,rgba(41,137,216,1) 50%,rgba(32,124,202,1) 51%,rgba(125,185,232,1) 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1e5799', endColorstr='#7db9e8',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */


}

ul li a{
    color: inherit;
    display: block;
    height: 100px;
    line-height: 100px;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-size: 25px;
}

ul li:hover {
    color: #000;
     box-shadow: inset 0 0 10px #000000;
    background: rgb(254,255,255); /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  rgba(254,255,255,1) 0%, rgba(221,241,249,1) 35%, rgba(160,216,239,1) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom,...