#navcontainer
{
background: #F0F8FF;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 1em 0 0 0;
text-transform: lowercase;
}


/* to stretch the container div to contain floated list */
#submenucontainer:after
{
content: ".";
display: block;
line-height: 1px;
font-size: 1px;
clear: both;
}

ul#submenulist
{
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 90%;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

ul#submenulist li
{
display: block;
float: left;
width: 15%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

ul#submenulist li a
{
display: block;

padding: 0.5em;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #ffe #aaab9c #ccc #fff;
border-style: solid;
color: #777;
text-decoration: none;
background: #f7f2ea;
}

#navcontainer>ul#submenulist li a { width: auto; }

ul#submenulist li#active a
{
background: #B0C4DE;
color: #800000;
}

ul#submenulist li a:hover, ul#submenulist li#active a:hover
{
color: #800000;
background: #DCDCDC;
border-color: #aaab9c #fff #fff #ccc;
}