li menu needs class of “selected”

Question

when the user clicks on a menu tab i want it to remain selected with it a white button.

here is my attempt but its not working. if you click the home button it does

Answer 1

This'd do it. You forgot to set the selected class css

http://fiddle.jshell.net/54uDQ/

The important part is this css

#navigation a:hover, #navigation a.selected
{

    background: url('http://i51.tinypic.com/2iih9c9.png') no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    color: #000000;
    height: 43px;
    list-style: none outside none;
    padding-left: 10px;
    text-decoration: none;
    width: 116px;
    text-align:center
}