Adjust the position of border

Question

I have a bottom border of a ul. There's bottom border of links inside the list items also. I want to adjust the position of the link border so that it is exactly on the ul border, so that it looks like this:

I am unable to set the border position. Here's my code:

HTML:

<ul>
    <li><a href="#" class="active">item 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li>
</ul>

CSS:

    ul{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;       
    list-style: none;
    overflow: hidden;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid green; 
}

ul li{
    float: left;   
    margin-right: 10px;
}

ul li a{
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

ul li a.active{
    border-bottom: 5px solid red;    
}

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/sZ8Gu/

Answer 1

Don't know if this will be option for you, but removing overflow and giving height to ul does the job. jsfiddle