How to make a pure css based dropdown menu?

I am looking horizontal dropdown menu pure css based and browser compatible....

i am looking like mentioned below example

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Solution 1:

see this is pure css bases dropdown menu:-

HTML

<ul id="menu">
      <li><a href="">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="">About Us</a>
        <ul>
        <li><a href="">The Team</a></li>
        <li><a href="">History</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Vision</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="">Products</a>
        <ul>
        <li><a href="">Cozy Couch</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Great Table</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Small Chair</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Shiny Shelf</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Invisible Nothing</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="">Contact</a>
        <ul>
        <li><a href="">Online</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Right Here</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Somewhere Else</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>

CSS

ul
{
    font-family: Arial, Verdana;
    font-size: 14px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
}

ul li
{
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    float: left;
}

li ul
{
    display: none;
}

ul li a 
{
    display: block;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #ffffff;
    border-top: 1px solid #ffffff;
    padding: 5px 15px 5px 15px;
    background: #2C5463;
    margin-left: 1px;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

ul li a:hover 
{
    background: #617F8A;
}
li:hover ul 
{
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
}

li:hover li
{
    float: none;
    font-size: 11px;
}

li:hover a 
{
    background: #617F8A;
}

li:hover li a:hover 
{
    background: #95A9B1;
}

see the demo:- http://jsfiddle.net/XPE3w/7/

Solution 2:

Tested in IE7 - 9 and Firefox: http://jsfiddle.net/WCaKg/. Markup:

<ul>
    <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>

    <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>

    <li>&lt;li&gt;

        <ul>
            <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>

            <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>

            <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>

            <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>
        </ul>
    </li>

    <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>

    <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>

    <li>&lt;li&gt;</li>
</ul>

CSS:

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

body {
  font: 200%/1.5 Optima, 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif;
}

ul {
  width: 9em;
  list-style-type: none;
  font-size: 0.75em;
}

li {
  float: left;
  margin: 0 4px 4px 0;
  background: #60c;
  background: rgba(102, 0, 204, 0.66);
  border: 4px solid #60c;
  color: #fff;
}
li:hover {
  position: relative;
}

ul ul {
  z-index: 1;
  position: absolute;
  left: -999em;
  width: auto;
  background: #ccc;
  background: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.33);
}

li:hover ul {
  top: 2em;
  left: 3px;
}

li li {
  margin: 0 0 3px 0;
  background: #909;
  background: rgba(153, 0, 153, 0.66);
  border: 3px solid #909;
}

Solution 3:

html, body {
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

/* define a fixed width for the entire menu */
.navigation {
  width: 150px;
}

/* reset our lists to remove bullet points and padding */
.mainmenu, .submenu {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
}

/* make ALL links (main and submenu) have padding and background color */
.mainmenu a {
  display: block;
  background-color: #CCC;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding: 10px;
  color: #000;
}

/* add hover behaviour */
.mainmenu a:hover {
    background-color: #C5C5C5;
}


/* when hovering over a .mainmenu item,
  display the submenu inside it.
  we're changing the submenu's max-height from 0 to 200px;
*/

.mainmenu li:hover .submenu {
  display: block;
  max-height: 200px;
}

/*
  we now overwrite the background-color for .submenu links only.
  CSS reads down the page, so code at the bottom will overwrite the code at the top.
*/

.submenu a {
  background-color: #999;
}

/* hover behaviour for links inside .submenu */
.submenu a:hover {
  background-color: #666;
}

/* this is the initial state of all submenus.
  we set it to max-height: 0, and hide the overflowed content.
*/
.submenu {
  overflow: hidden;
  max-height: 0;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.5s ease-out;
}

<html>
<body>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="css/text" href="nav.css">
</head>
</body>
<nav class="navigation">
  <ul class="mainmenu">
    <li><a href="">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="">Products</a>
      <ul class="submenu">
        <li><a href="">Tops</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Bottoms</a></li>
        <li><a href="">Footwear</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="">Contact us</a></li>
  </ul>
</nav>

How to make a pure css based dropdown menu?

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