I think something like this might be a start. I know the code is probably far from consistent or optimized. I just threw it together to see what the problem might be.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title></title> <script src="../jquery-1.1.1.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <style type="text/css"> * { margin:0; padding:0; border:0; list-style:none; } ul { height:150px; } ul li { float:left; position:relative; margin:5px; } ul li a { display:block; height:150px; width:150px; } ul li a#a-1 { background-color:red; } ul li a#a-2 { background-color:blue; } ul li a#a-3 { background-color:green; } ul li a#a-4 { background-color:orange; } </style> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery( function( $ ) { var menu = $( "#menu" ); menu .hover( function( ){ }, function( ) { $( this ) .find( "a" ) .animate( { width:150 }, "slow" ); } ) .find( "a" ) .mouseover( function( ) { $( this ) .addClass( 'active' ) .animate( { width: 210 }, "slow" ); menu .find( "a" ) .not( ".active" ) .animate( { width: 130 }, "slow" ); } ) .mouseout( function( ) { $( this ).removeClass( 'active' ); } ) ; } ) ; </script> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <ul id="menu"> <li> # One </li> <li> # Two </li> <li> # Three </li> <li> # Four </li> </ul> </div> </body> </html> -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-mootools-like-top-navigation-tf3159556.html#a8779051 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/