At 07:42 AM 1/2/99 -0500, Brent Eades wrote:
>Am deep in the process of redesigning the Bank's Web site, and am
>wondering how best to do the following:
>
>On each page of the site will be a fairly lengthy text-based navigation
>column running down the left. It will be exactly the same on each page,
>*except* that I want to highlight the currently-selected page/section --
>probably by the usual convention of removing the href tag from it so it's
>not a link:
>
>__Publications__
> __Working Papers__
> __Backgrounders__
> Speeches << not a link
> __Journal Articles__
>
>...and so on.
>
>OK. So I want to use SSI to plug in the HTML for the navigation column
>when a page is loaded, rather than embed the HTML in every single page;
>however, this will not allow me to highlight the appropriate entry for the
>various pages, without a script of some sort that will alter the HTML on
>the fly.
>
>So what do people think is the best route to go here? Basically, I want
>the SSI to execute conditionally: "check the URL of the page that is being
>loaded; examine the include file that renders the navigation column; when
>a URL in the include file matches the URL that is being loaded, strip out
>the <a href> tag from that text."
The way this was done on UltimateTV was to have slightly
different headers for each section. It was faster in the long
run than making a self modifying header.
Then for each section you include the proper header.
Matt Soffen
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