Hi Kornel

True, that older site didn't require a lot of css. I did, however use the
body class or id, I can't remember to trigger the sub nav to open.

I've never liked that navigation layout. It was clumsy in cross-browsers. If
I still worked there, I'd re-do it.

I'll send them a note about the padding.

I guess the point of the whole process is, if you have a lot of pages and
need to create a navigation that is universal, using the body class and a
set of rules in your CSS to open and close is a nice way to go. 

It's also nice if you can scrap all of this work and simply use a
dynamically generated navigation list with appropriate class="here"
attributes.

There is a piece on alistapart.com, one of the latest, that discusses how to
combine this with rollover and current states. I've already used it's logic
on a test navigation for a museum in Puerto Rico.

Ted




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [WSG] when navigation schemes go bad.

On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:42:07 +0100, Drake, Ted C.  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

> I used something similar on this site: http://www.csatravelprotection.com

I don't see anything that would require tons of CSS on that page (checked  
FF nightly and Opera 8.01).

Sub-navigation doesn't even change when you hover main elements - page has  
to be reloaded just to change that bit of CSS...

BTW: clear padding on body, becase page looks a bit broken in Opera.

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regards, Kornel Lesiński
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