Hi, > CSS does not "know" anything about > a link pointing to the page itself.
What about a:active and/or a:current? I'm uncertain but a:hover works in style sheets without having to add an ID or class of 'hover' to the links so maybe it's the same with the former two. Then perhaps} display: none; Sorry if it's a bad guess. br, cb On 17/08/2010, at 3:01 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Val Dobson wrote: > >> Is there a CSS method to hide the current page link in a navigation >> list? ie: if you're on the "widgets" page, you don't get the "See >> our >> crazy widgets!" link in the menu. > > You can do this only if you have some way of distinguishing the > current page > link from other elements in terms of CSS. This normally means it > needs to > have a suitable class (or id) attribute. CSS does not "know" > anything about > a link pointing to the page itself. > > In theory you could use attribute selectors that select elements > e.g. on the > basis of the href attribute value. But there's no way in CSS to > couple this > with the idea of the URL of the page itself. > >> I'm responsible for looking after a static HTML site that has had >> more and more pages added to it over the years, and changing the >> navigation on each page is becoming a chore. >> I know how to do includes, I'd just like to hide the current page >> link.. > > Simple server-side includes won't help. You would need to generate the > navigational elements in a manner that uses some distinguishing > markup for > the current page link. You might ask why not then remove that link > instead > of hiding it from the visual appearance, and that's a good question. > > If you cannot use any more advanced server-side techniques, then > probably > the best shot is to add a piece of JavaScript that traverses the > links on > the page and hides any link pointing to the page itself. Here, too, > one > might ask why not remove the link from the document tree instead of > just > hiding it via CSS. > > -- > Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
