[thelist] Menu Highlighting

Chris W. Parker cparker at swatgear.com
Fri Jan 31 19:07:00 CST 2003 

Michele Foster <mailto:michele at wordpro.on.ca> wrote:

> Hi Folks ..

[snip]

i don't understand. you want to know how to make something like this?

<b>Home</b> Sales Products
-------------------------------
Home_1 Home_2

::

Home <b>Sales</b> Products
-------------------------------
Sales_1 Sales_2 Sales_3 Sales_4


is that what you mean? like where you click a tab and that tab becomes
highlighted and the submenu changes?

i believe this is the case, but i am unsure of specifically what you are
trying to do. i don't understand the three page thing.


YOU:
I guess I could create the address.asp file three times ..
c_address.asp,
v_address.asp, a_address.asp .. and use that for the menu highlighting
..
but that seems rather inefficient as it's the same address file.

ME:
a better alternative would be to make three pages that include a single
address source page. here is a quick example...

c_address.asp:

<html>
<...>
<body>
This is the "C" Page!
<!--#include file="address_source.asp"-->
</body>
</html>

v_address.asp:

<html>
<...>
<body>
This is the "V" Page!
<!--#include file="address_source.asp"-->
</body>
</html>

a_address.asp:

<html>
<...>
<body>
This is the "A" Page!
<!--#include file="address_source.asp"-->
</body>
</html>

OOOORRRR....

you could send along a variable with each click...

<a href="addresses.asp?type=v">V Address Page</a>
<a href="addresses.asp?type=a">A Address Page</a>
<a href="addresses.asp?type=c">C Address Page</a>

then have the addresses.asp page Request("type") and spit out your
content based on that.


let me know if i've misunderstood you.

chris.

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