Is it possible to make a simple horizontal css menu without using lists?

My page layout is such that a list would destroy the non-css layout, and I don't want that if I can avoid it. At the moment I am struggling with creating nice a:hover boxes around my text links, having just a series of <a> links with no ordering as I want them to be horizontal in both CSS and normal HTML.

Difficult to explain in words, so here's a web page with the kind of links I'm after: http://dianealdred.com/category/bookbinding/
(The 'Home | About :: | Favourite Things' part)

My starting page is here: http://www.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/nature/

Any help or pointers to tutorials on this? I looked but everyone seems to be using lists.

Thanks!

The example you gave uses lists:

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<ul>
		<li><a href="http://dianealdred.com">Home</a></li>
		<li class="page_item page-item-2"><a href="http://dianealdred.com/about/" title="About&nbsp;::">About&nbsp;::</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-225"><a href="http://dianealdred.com/favourites/" title="Favourite&nbsp;things">Favourite&nbsp;things</a></li>
	</ul>

I'm not sure why you wouldn't want to use lists since that is the correct way to create a navigation.

You just need to use a horizontal list...

How do I make a horizontal list in HTML? I've never come across one before.

Sorry the question makes no sense with me.

Simple horizontal list: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/horizontal01.htm

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When viewed without the stylesheet I want the links to be all on one line, same layout as with the stylesheet. Every example I've seen using lists has each item on a separate line when viewed without the stylesheet.

This cannot be done; unless you use tables.. I think.

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OK thanks, that's all I wanted to know.

I may be wrong.

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You are complicating your work unnecessarily.

Of those people who use a visual browser, almost all will get the CSS.

For the few that don't have CSS, you need not and should not attempt to reproduce your CSS layout. A list of links is logical and easy to read. Why mess with it?

I agree 1000000% what Mike said.