<code><ul id="nav">
    <li>
        <a href="#">Home</a>
    </li>

    <li>
        <a href="#">About</a>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">The product</a></li>

            <li><a href="#">Meet the team</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#">Services</a>

        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Sevice one</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Sevice two</a></li>

            <li><a href="#">Sevice three</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Sevice four</a></li>
        </ul>

    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#">Product</a>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Small product (one)</a></li>

            <li><a href="#">Small product (two)</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Small product (three)</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Small product (four)</a></li>

            <li><a href="#">Big product (five)</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Big product (six)</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Big product (seven)</a></li>

            <li><a href="#">Big product (eight)</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Enourmous product (nine)</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Enourmous product (ten)</a></li>

            <li><a href="#">Enourmous product (eleven)</a></li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#">Contact</a>

        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Out-of-hours</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Directions</a></li>

        </ul>
    </li>
</ul></code>

The CSS

This is where the magic happens--we use CSS to transform a series of nested <ul>s into a smooth, easy to use, neat and self-contained dropdown menu.
<code><span class="code-comment">/* BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE CSS RESET FOUND IN THE DEMO PAGE'S CSS */</span>
<span class="code-comment">/*------------------------------------*\
    NAV
\*------------------------------------*/</span>
#nav{
    list-style:none;
    font-weight:bold;
    margin-bottom:10px;
    <span class="code-comment">/* Clear floats */</span>
    float:left;
    width:100%;
    <span class="code-comment">/* Bring the nav above everything else--uncomment if needed.
    position:relative;
    z-index:5;
    */</span>
}
#nav li{
    float:left;
    margin-right:10px;
    position:relative;
}
#nav a{
    display:block;
    padding:5px;
    color:#fff;
    background:#333;
    text-decoration:none;
}
#nav a:hover{
    color:#fff;
    background:#6b0c36;
    text-decoration:underline;
}

<span class="code-comment">/*--- DROPDOWN ---*/</span>
#nav ul{
    background:#fff; <span class="code-comment">/* Adding a background makes the dropdown work properly in IE7+. Make this as close to your page's background as possible (i.e. white page == white background). */</span>
    background:rgba(255,255,255,0); <span class="code-comment">/* But! Let's make the background fully transparent where we can, we don't actually want to see it if we can help it... */</span>
    list-style:none;
    position:absolute;
    left:-9999px; <span class="code-comment">/* Hide off-screen when not needed (this is more accessible than display:none;) */</span>
}
#nav ul li{
    padding-top:1px; <span class="code-comment">/* Introducing a padding between the li and the a give the illusion spaced items */</span>
    float:none;
}
#nav ul a{
    white-space:nowrap; <span class="code-comment">/* Stop text wrapping and creating multi-line dropdown items */</span>
}
#nav li:hover ul{ <span class="code-comment">/* Display the dropdown on hover */</span>
    left:0; <span class="code-comment">/* Bring back on-screen when needed */</span>
}
#nav li:hover a{ <span class="code-comment">/* These create persistent hover states, meaning the top-most link stays 'hovered' even when your cursor has moved down the list. */</span>
    background:#6b0c36;
    text-decoration:underline;
}
#nav li:hover ul a{ <span class="code-comment">/* The persistent hover state does however create a global style for links even before they're hovered. Here we undo these effects. */</span>
    text-decoration:none;
}
#nav li:hover ul li a:hover{ <span class="code-comment">/* Here we define the most explicit hover states--what happens when you hover each individual link. */</span>
    background:#333;
}</code>