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Posted by Kevin Scholl on 06/23/06 21:23
Jim Moe wrote:
> Kevin Scholl wrote:
>>>> EX: Global tool page included a link to the news page. It is colored black
>>>> like all the othe links listed in the global tool page. Once you have
>>>> navigated to the news page, the link for that page has now changed to red in
>>>> the global tool bar. I thought that was what A: active link is used for but
>>>> I think I am wrong.
>>>>
>>> The closest you can get with CSS is a:visited, but it is not unique. If
>>> you set it to red, all the other visited links are red as well.
>> It actually can be done quite easily with only CSS. There are several
>> tutorials for it online; here's a pretty straight forward one:
>>
>> http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/highlighting-current-page-with-css
>>
> Well, I was not considering having to do it all manually.
Doesn't really involve any more manual coding per page that the PHP
solution presented on ALA. The only unique aspect is the body class
declaration.
> The method described above does not scale well; it needs a unique ID for
> every page and menu item, a lot of cruft builds up in the CSS files. Using
True, which is why I specified (in a part of my message that was
snipped) that this is a POSSIBLE solution for someone who doesn't have
the programming knowledge or the server capabilities to support it.
> SSIs does not scale easily either since a unique file is needed for each
> page's menu.
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