apply css to li on click without jquery or javascript

Question

here is my html code

<div id="menus">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="HomePage.html">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Users</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Project Manage</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Transaction</a></li>
        <li style="border-right:none;"><a href="#">Logout</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

here is my CSS

#menus li
{
    float:left;
    list-style-type: none;
    padding-left: 25px;
    padding-right: 25px;
    border-right:groove 1px #FFFFFF;
    background: #666666;
}

#menus li:hover
{
    background: #999999;
}

#menus li a
{
    font-size:24px;
    text-decoration:none;
    color:#FFFFFF;
}

#menus li a:hover
{
    color:#000000;
}

now i want to change css when user click on li (like display current selected). can I do this using css only?? If yes then how??

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

You can do it with CSS only using focus and tabindex

DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/kevinPHPkevin/LstNS/4/

li:focus  {
  background: red;
  outline: 0;
}

A good way to employ an 'active' menu item solution is this

DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/kevinPHPkevin/LstNS/6/

Source: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200503/setting_the_current_menu_state_with_css/