jQuery hover and class selector

Answer 1

I prefer foxy's answer because we should never use javascript when existing css properties are made for the job.

Don't forget to add display: block ; in .menuItem, so height and width are taken into account.

edit : for better script/look&feel decoupling, if you ever need to change style through jQuery I'd define an additional css class and use $(...).addClass("myclass") and $(...).removeClass("myclass")