Thank you, David. That did the trick. I posted a view of what you suggested at: http://advancewm.com/test_menu.htm
The essential parts were: #leftnav3 ul ul { margin: 1px 0; background: url(/s5/left-nav-bar.gif) repeat-y top left; padding: 1px 0; list-style: none; } #leftnav3 ul ul li { margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #fff; display: block; } The display:block allowed the white background of the LI to cover the UL's background image. Best regards -- Tony > On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:31:13 -0500, Tony Lush wrote: > > > > We have a left menu composed of two levels of unordered lists, and the art > > director > > would like a fine gradient line above and below the subsidiary UL. > > > > If it were just a fine grey line I could use: > > > > #leftnav ul ul { > > border-top: 1px solid #eee; > > border-bottom: 1px sold #eee; > > } > [...] > Hi Tony, > > You could try adding padding-top and -bottom instead of a border, > and apply the gradient to this same UL as a repeated background image. > > Cordially, > David > -- ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/