[thelist] JavaScript - searching for link and comparing
Christian Heilmann
lists at onlinetools.org
Wed Dec 22 05:08:37 CST 2004
Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
>>I'm a neophyte when it comes to Javascript. I'm trying to write some code
>>that will search through my nav for a link matching the current page, and
>>then write a css class to the containing <li> to style it as the current
>>page the user is on.
>>
>>
>
>var x = document.getElementById('nav').getElementsByTagName('a');
>for (var i=0;i<x.length;i++)
>{
> if (x[i].href == location.href)
> x[i].className = 'youarehere';
>}
>
>
>
That adds the class to the Link though, not the LI, as shown in my
example you just need to loop over the LIs ammend the comparison to read
the first link inside the current LI.
Otherwise, the same issues apply. Navigation generation and highlighting
is an SSI thing, period.
More information about the thelist
mailing list