Style Individual Navigation Items for 2010

Style Individual Navigation Items for 2010

Well first you will need to modify the master page and do a search for “UseSimpleRendering="true"”. This basically tells SharePoint to render the navigation using a clean unordered list <UL> <LI> format.
Since this is so clean, it does not have any unique ID’s attached to it like it did in SharePoint 2007.

So if you change it to false: UseSimpleRendering="false" you can clearly see that each node now has a unique ID:

So if we simply take the same approach for 2007 we can get similar results.  You will notice the only difference in the ID’s from 2007 to 2010 is that they put in a “V4” after the word “Menu” and before the “n#”

1. 2007 ID: zz1_TopNavigationMenun0
2. 2010 ID: zz1_TopNavigationMenuV4n0

You can also remove the “ms-topnav” since it is not needed. You should end up with something like this:

Below is the CSS that I used to achieve the design above for SharePoint 2010. Remember you need to make that modification to the master page noted above to get this to work. Also notice that I kept the “a” reference at the end of each ID.
#s4-topheader2{
border: none;
background-color: transparent;
background-image: none;
font-weight: bold;
height: 54px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
#zz1_TopNavigationMenuV4n0 a{
background-image: url(/_layouts/images/newshomepage.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -40px -3px;
background-color: #006699;
border: 1px #006699 solid !important;
padding:18px 20px 18px 80px;
color: #FFF;
}
#zz1_TopNavigationMenuV4n1 a{
background-image: url(/_layouts/images/PLICON.PNG);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -40px -3px;
background-color: #FF9933;
border: 1px #FF9933 solid !important;
padding:18px 20px 18px 80px;
color: #FFF;
}
#zz1_TopNavigationMenuV4n2 a{
background-image: url(/_layouts/images/ANNOUNCE.PNG);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -40px -3px;
background-color: #336633;
border: 1px #336633 solid !important;
padding:18px 20px 18px 80px;
color: #FFF;
}
#zz1_TopNavigationMenuV4n3 a{
background-image: url(/_layouts/images/ReportCenter.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -40px -3px;
background-color: #990000;
border: 1px #990000 solid !important;
padding:18px 20px 18px 80px;
color: #FFF;
}
#zz1_TopNavigationMenuV4n4 a{
background-image: url(/_layouts/images/SMT_LARGE.PNG);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -40px -3px;
background-color: #660066;
border: 1px #660066 solid !important;
padding:18px 20px 18px 80px;
color: #FFF;
}
#zz1_TopNavigationMenuV4n5 a{
background-image: url(/_layouts/images/categories.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: -40px -3px;
background-color: #999;
border: 1px #999 solid !important;
padding:18px 20px 18px 80px;
color: #FFF;
}