In struts-menu, the way I've implemented "active tab" is done using JavaScript - and it's none obtrusive. Basically, I set an onclick event on each tab (an <li>) when the page loads. Clicking on the tab then sets a cookie. When the page loads, the active tab is set by comparing the current URL with the URLs in each menu item. If duplicates are found (highly likely since you might want the same menu item under different tabs), the cookie is used. This could also done in Java (setting the ".selected" CSS class), but I like CSS and JavaScript, so I did it that way.
All the JavaScript can be viewed in this file: http://raibledesigns.com/struts-menu/scripts/tabs.js More info at http://raibledesigns.com/struts-menu/tabbedMenu.jsp?Home HTH, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:36 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: concept for active tab Im not using tiles and tiles tabs but my app does have navigation links that need to be highlighted. These links come from a config file (navigation-config.xml) , which specifies such things as the links label key and the url to which it points (usually an action - but often with appended url parameters). (Most of my links are in a tree and the navigation renderer uses the navigation config to construct a javascript tree widget) To work out which link to highlight , the renderer will compare the request path with whats in the config. It also does some comparisons based on the appended parameters so it knows which link to highlight when several point at the same base action path. It seems to work quite well. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 6 June 2003 15:33 To: Struts-User List Subject: concept for active tab I have a site that has 6 or so main tabs. I was thinking how I would know which tab was active based on the page the user was currently visiting. I came up with one idea, but perhaps other people have ideas as well. In my tiles I set aside a variable name 'section' which by default is "Home." In each jsp page, I define the section variable to equivalent to the section the page belongs to, else it will default to "Home." Then, when I render my master layout with the navigation, I check to see if the section variable is equivalent to the tab and if so, I display a highlighted tab. Instead of putting it in each jsp file I suppose I could make a mapping file of some sort, but I haven't gotten that far yet. Any other ideas? Dan -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Daniel Allen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mojavelinux.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Real programmers don't change their wardrobe too often: there are no clothes stores that are open at two o'clock in the morning. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
