> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Eades
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 1999 7:43 AM
> 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 --
I personally would use two frames, with Javascript in the top level
that uses the .writeln method to update the contents of the left frame
when a new page is loaded into the right one. However, some people seem
to feel that frames should not be used under any circumstances, that
nothing useful can be done with them.
If you can be sure that all of your users will be using browsers that
support the DOM standard, you can use two DIVs to lay out the page and
have JavaScript code that changes the STYLE or CLASS attribute of the
link to highlight it. Best would be if the contents of the right-hand
section are downloaded in XML and displayed by the script.
Of course, doing this on the server side is trivial, in Perl, Java(Script),
or COBOL, but it would be a shame to download all that navigation data
every single time the user clicks on something.
Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC
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