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Taken From The Forum: Help & Support for DHTML Menu Version 5+
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:51
"Current page" indication on menu
Poster: Inuyasha
Dated: Saturday March 5 2005 - 7:02:37 GMT
In the DHTML menu, the background color for the menu item that the user is currently at is different than the other items. However there seems to be a slight problem on my site. When I navigate to the home page for the first time in the session (and thus not used the DHTML menu to get to the page), the menu looks like this:
If I then click on a menu item, the menu on, say, the "Links" page, looks like this. Notice the background behind Links indicating my location in the site:
The strange thing is that I then click on the Home button in the menu again, I return home, but now the background indicating that I am Home is present:
How do I make the menu look as it does in the third picture when the Home page is first accessed? Thanks for your replies!
Poster: John
Dated: Saturday March 5 2005 - 7:26:48 GMT
Please provide, as requested, a URL.
Also, what browser, OS, and versions are you running?
Poster: Inuyasha
Dated: Saturday March 5 2005 - 16:55:27 GMT
John wrote:
Please provide, as requested, a URL.
Also, what browser, OS, and versions are you running?
Also, what browser, OS, and versions are you running?
The URL is:
http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/
I'm running Windows XP Home Edition SP2, and both Firefox 1.0.1 and Internet Explorer 6.0. The DHTML menu on the site is version 5.714.
Thanks for your help!
Poster: John
Dated: Saturday March 5 2005 - 18:05:06 GMT
It's failing on Mac as well.
At quick glance (I just got called out for fire duty), I don't see anything glaring. Try moving your JS menu calls down to the FIRST items after the body tag.
Poster: Inuyasha
Dated: Saturday March 5 2005 - 18:20:30 GMT
John wrote:
It's failing on Mac as well.
At quick glance (I just got called out for fire duty), I don't see anything glaring. Try moving your JS menu calls down to the FIRST items after the body tag.
At quick glance (I just got called out for fire duty), I don't see anything glaring. Try moving your JS menu calls down to the FIRST items after the body tag.
I've moved it down below the body tag now, and the menu system still works but the problem remains, it seems...
Poster: Inuyasha
Dated: Saturday March 5 2005 - 18:25:19 GMT
Also, the script right after the body tag, which starts "function SymError()" is added after I upload the page by the server, it seems, and is always immediately after the <head> tag, so the JS menu call script has to be after it. I don't actually know what "SymError" script does, for that matter.
Poster: Ruth
Dated: Sunday March 6 2005 - 0:13:23 GMT
The url in the item is
Code:
http://home.comcast.net/~gc.17/Home.html
The url you get when you click the button to enter is Code:
http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/Home.html?
So it is not matching. Try coding that item with a pagematch.
Code:
aI("text=Home;url=http://home.comcast.net/~gc.17/Home.html;pagematch=http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/Home.html?;");
I'm not sure that will work. I don't know what the ? is in the url.
And, you're down a level, you need to get version5.715.
Ruth
Poster: Inuyasha
Dated: Sunday March 6 2005 - 3:10:43 GMT
Ruth wrote:
The url in the item is
Try coding that item with a pagematch.
And, you're down a level, you need to get version5.715.
Ruth
Code:
http://home.comcast.net/~gc.17/Home.html
The url you get when you click the button to enter is Code:
http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/Home.html?
So it is not matching. Try coding that item with a pagematch.
Code:
aI("text=Home;url=http://home.comcast.net/~gc.17/Home.html;pagematch=http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/Home.html?;");
I'm not sure that will work. I don't know what the ? is in the url. And, you're down a level, you need to get version5.715.
Ruth
No, sorry... I implemented the code you suggested, and also upgraded to the new version, but its still happening.
Poster: Ruth
Dated: Sunday March 6 2005 - 4:01:48 GMT
It is because the url in the Home item is not matching the url of the page that you don't get the pagematch. Did you try leaving out the ? in the pagematch= to see if that will work? Or try putting in
Code:
http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/
as the match?
Ruth
Poster: Inuyasha
Dated: Sunday March 6 2005 - 17:51:11 GMT
I got it working, thanks for your help everyone! It turns out that the URL the Home menu item was set to was an alternative URL (http://home.comcast.net/~gc.17/Home.html)... so it did not recognize http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/Home.html.