Question about my navigation include file

James-Clarke · #1 May 12th, 2005, 09:40

Hello everybody,

I'm new to the forum and fairly new to ASP so please be gentle! Basically, I have a question about one of my include files:

I have put the navigation inside an include, but I want to be able to show the user that they are on a particular page by having that particular menu item highlighted, using CSS. Obviously this is not easily done by somebody with my very little ASP knowledge. Which leads to my question...

Does anybody know what ASP I have to put inside my include file in order to highlight the particular menu items?

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
James

FYI, my include file looks like this:

<div id="navigation">
<ul>[*]Homepage[*]Beginnings[*]Qualifications and Awards[*]Musical Repertoire[*]Teaching[/list]</div>

James-Clarke · #2 May 12th, 2005, 09:46

P.S.: Obviously there are href's inside the[*]'s - forgot to add those in.

Smokie · #3 May 13th, 2005, 09:56

well this is how ive done it in the past:

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<%
Dim PageName
PageName = "About Us"
%>
<html>
 <body>
  
  <h2>About Us</h2>
 </body>
</html>

...then, within my navigation include, i have this:

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[*]<%If PageName="Home" Then%><%End If%>Home<%If PageName="Home" Then%><%End If%>[*]<%If PageName="About Us" Then%><%End If%>About Us<%If PageName="About Us" Then%><%End If%>

So basically the navigation include looks for the variable called page name and makes the link bold if the correct value is found. People will tell you that the include is processed before the variable, so this shouldnt work, but it does, go figure!

Hope that helps

James-Clarke · #4 May 17th, 2005, 14:36

Thanks a lot, Smokie! Works like a charm.

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