"Current page" indication on menu

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:02 am

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!

Post by **John** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:26 am

Please provide, as requested, a URL.

Also, what browser, OS, and versions are you running?

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:55 pm

John wrote:Please provide, as requested, a URL.

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!

Post by **John** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:05 pm

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.

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:20 pm

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.

I've moved it down below the body tag now, and the menu system still works but the problem remains, it seems...

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:25 pm

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.

Post by **Ruth** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 1:13 am

The url in the item is

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http://home.comcast.net/~gc.17/Home.html

The url you get when you click the button to enter is

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http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/Home.html?

So it is not matching.

Try coding that item with a pagematch.

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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

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:10 am

Ruth wrote:The url in the item is
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http://home.comcast.net/~gc.17/Home.html
The url you get when you click the button to enter is
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http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/Home.html?
So it is not matching.

Try coding that item with a pagematch.
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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.

Post by **Ruth** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:01 am

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

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http://gc.17.home.comcast.net/

as the match?

Ruth

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:51 pm

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.