[thelist] css active state

Tue Aug 10 07:58:26 CDT 2004

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 13:42, thelist at punterspower.co.uk wrote:
> Maybe active is the wrong word, it is the wrong word I meant
> onstate.
> 
> any ideas or is there more to this code than meest the eye, I am now going
> down the php css path :)

It's quite easy, really. You don't even need to use php to achieve this.

<a href="foo" id="nav-foo">Foo</a>
<a href="bar" id="nav-bar">Bar</a>
<a href="baz" id="nav-baz">Baz</a>

...then, in each section of the site, set (e.g.) <body id="body-foo">,
changing "foo" for "bar" or whateven depending on the section.

...then in your CSS:

#body-foo #nav-foo, #body-bar #nav-bar, #body-baz #nav-baz {
  /* styles to indicate that this section is selected */
}

HTH,

Tim
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Tim Beadle <tim.beadle at iop.org>