Posted by Kevin Scholl on 06/23/06 21:19

Jim Higson wrote:

> IMO, styling a link differently using CSS for the current page isn't the
> best way because there isn't really any point in a page containing links to
> itself.

Unless the site architecture contains multiple levels, in which case the
nav item with the active state could act as both an indicator of what
section the user in is AND a quick link back to the sectional index.

> I always prefer to replace links to the current page with span elements. I
> give these the class "nonlink" or something like that so they can be styled
> in a way that suggests they would be a link if they weren't not :)

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