Basic CSS Quesiton Options

[cherry_starr]

I've got a pretty basic CSS question... i tried googling the answer, but i wasn't sure what it was even called, and i wasn't coming up with what i was looking for, and i am sure someone on here knows, so here goes:

I was wondering how to code a bg colour/underline/overline into a menu/header. And i don't mean just closely around the text. I am sort of unsure how to describe it, but some examples of layouts that use it are:

http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=22628

The menu and the headers are using the CSS i am talking about, but i can't figure out the part of the code that does that. So if anyone could give me a hand that would be awesome, and greatly appreciated :)

Thank you!!

[IVIike]

I think this is the code

CODE

font, td, a, table, td, li, p, div, textarea, li, h1, h2, p, br {
font-family:tahoma;
font-size: 8pt;
color:XXXXXX;
font-weight: normal;
text-decoration: none;
letter-spacing: 0px;
padding: 0px;
line-height: 17px;}

h1 {
font: 8pt "verdana";
text-align: left;
letter-spacing: 3px;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin: 5 0 10px 0;
color:XXXXXX;
border-bottom:1px solid;
border-bottom-color:595B4D;
font-weight:bold;}

div.title {
font: 20pt "arial";
text-align: left;
letter-spacing: 0px;
text-transform: lowercase;
position:absolute;
z-index:2;
top:50%;
margin-top:-200px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -300px;
color:XXXXXX;}

ect.