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#1 2006-09-15 18:39:53
- francis_dean_10
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2 questions. Need Help. CSS, Navigation, Permalinks.
question #1
So my site is pretty much done, my navigation being links that go to sections. Right now I am trying to figure out a way to have the css hold the mouse over color of a section so you know where you are.
I was wondering if there is anyway to maybe have a plugin have an id added to the links that css can say.. ok if this is section is WORK, then make the color:#00000; etc…
I have been looking through all the plugins for links, but can’t seem to find anything.
question #2
My website will have sections that are blogs and sections that aren’t. The sections that aren’t I totally stripped down the article styles, so their is no comment stuff of permalinks, but the problem is that I can’t figure out the logic of the sections. To find them manually. What is the logic? Its usually something like section/33/article-name.
Where does that number come from? How can I find the sections?
Ok, I really like textpattern, I am switching from Wordpress. Textpattern is so clean, I love it… I am having a lot of fun.
Thanks everyone in this forum for being so responsive to newbies..
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#2 2006-09-15 21:22:00
- Mary
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Re: 2 questions. Need Help. CSS, Navigation, Permalinks.
For question #2: it depends upon the permlink mode (admin prefs) you are using. For the one that you appear to be using:
- Sections: http://yourdomain.com/section-name
- Categories: http://yourdomain.com/category/category-name
- Articles: http://yourdomain.com/article’s-section-name/article’s-id-number/article’s-title
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#3 2006-09-15 21:45:13
- NyteOwl
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Re: 2 questions. Need Help. CSS, Navigation, Permalinks.
For #1, you can use the active property to style an active link.
If you wanted to highlight a div or a span based on section you could do something like:
<code>
<txp:if_section name=“work”>
<style type=“text/css”>#workitem {color:#00000; background-color: #FFFFFF;}</style>
</txp:if_section>
.
.
.
<div id=“menu”>
<span id=“homeitem”>home</span>
<span id=“workitem”>work</span>
.
.
.
</div>
</code>
Last edited by NyteOwl (2006-09-15 21:46:15)
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#4 2006-09-16 00:14:08
- francis_dean_10
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Re: 2 questions. Need Help. CSS, Navigation, Permalinks.
OK, thanks so much. One more thing, how to you set id’s to links that are made via the content section of Textpattern, since I don’t have the ability to create the id’s myself.
-J
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#5 2006-09-16 20:48:07
- NyteOwl
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Re: 2 questions. Need Help. CSS, Navigation, Permalinks.
links that are made via the content section of Textpattern
Not sure I understand this, can you elaborate?
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#6 2006-09-17 01:48:30
- francis_dean_10
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Re: 2 questions. Need Help. CSS, Navigation, Permalinks.
The way I am doing my navigation is by having links in a certain category. So my Page is.
“txp:linklist category=“homepage” /”
This doesn’t give me the ability to set individual ID’s.
on this post replace “ with < and the other “ with > I can’t seem to post txp: snipits in the posts.. I tried the “notextile” tag and it didn’t work.
Last edited by francis_dean_10 (2006-09-17 02:01:10)
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#7 2006-09-17 09:56:37
- els
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Re: 2 questions. Need Help. CSS, Navigation, Permalinks.
How do I post tags and code on the forum?
If you want individual id’s for the links in your navigation, you’ll have to handcode them. Like this:
<code>
<a id=“id-1” href=”<txp:site_url /><txp:section name=“section-1” />/”><txp:section name=“section-1” title=“1” /></a>
</code>
Last edited by els (2006-09-17 10:04:03)
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