I agree with Armand.

And what about semantic markup? Your menu renders as a table instead of an unordered list :(

<li><a href=""/><span>tabname</span></a></li>

li

{

backgound-image:url(left.gif);background-repat:no-repeat;

}

li span

{

backgound-image:url(right.gif);background-repat:no-repeat;background-position:top-right;

}

li a

{

backgound-image:url(arrow.gif);background-repat:no-repeat;background-position:top-right;

}

as for the icon I never use that myself but i would use simple unotrosive javascript to inject a span iin the other span before the text ( still valid ) this will ahve to do till css3 is supported and you can have multiple background images

but now that i think of it you can also apply the icon as background image on the ul ( altho i never tried it but that should work

I have also used an extra span injected as

<span>tabname<span class="sf-sub-indicator"> &#187;</span></span>

Looking at your menu I think with a bit of effrot i can replicate all
your menus with pure unorderd list and fpor special cases some
unobtrosive javascript that will inject an extra item if needed

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I know withou javascript menus wont work. It was never about an unordered list structure perse ( all the real good menu systems use an unordered list struture to define the structure of the menu and then use javascript  to internally rewrite it to the correct format, so when you doa view source you get the basic unordered lis structure but when you doa view generated source you will see some ecta htm injection

Tom and I mentioned  semantic coding and unobtrosive javascript. Your menu has inline javascripting and because of this weird scripting and the fact that you have weird styling inside therese scripting calls you get an abundance of errors that ight interfer with other css issues . If you just have scripting that is run once thepage is loaded and interanlly rewrites the menu to the html you need you can do whatever you want.

A good SEO menu doesnt rely on these features and being able to stylre everything with an input field in a menu that is where css is fo

and this will be my final post about it since you are simply just not getting it , there is a reason all the real css design use unobtrosicve javascrip and underdered menu based menu system

for toher people following this thread, this is what Tom and I are referring too

unobtrosive javascrip :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript

http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/

semantic html coding:

http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/simplequiz/

And dont forget if content cannot be seen or accessed without javascrpt it also wont bee seen my textbased mobile devices screenreaders and other application used by the visually challenged.

With all the new acessabillity laws in te US of lets sue them for lots of money A. this is not something you would want on your site. I have done a nr of medical and government sites lately and sites using this menu would not pass there guidelines to be used and more ondf more companies and institutions are following the guidelines set.

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