[thelist] .asp "if pagename [this]..."

Fri May 28 08:48:35 CDT 2004

Russ wrote:
> In the event that there are other newbies in .asp trying to figure
> something similar out, I've come up with a simple, although probably not
> the "prettiest" way to do this:
> 
> On every page (actually in a header include), I define that actual
> pagename like this:
> 
> <%
> pagename=mid(Request.ServerVariables("URL"),
> instrrev(Request.ServerVariables("URL"), "/")+1)
> %>
> 
> Then, in my navigation include, I check for the page name and output a
> style based upon that result:
> 
> 		<ul>
>               <% if pagename = "company.asp" then classname = "li2" else
> classname = "li1" %>
> 		  <li class="<% Response.Write(classname) %>"><a
> href="company.asp">Overview</a></li>
>             </ul>

There is a somewhat more elegant way to handle this:
- alter the code where you set the pagename variable so that it does not 
include the ".asp"
- use the pagename variable as the id attribute in the <body> tag, like 
this:
   <body id="<%= pagename %>">
- no need to include the conditional statements in your navigation 
include now, just use this in your CSS:
   body#company li { ... }
   body#classname li { ... }

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