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#1 2007-01-07 00:27:10

Dan Hoy

New Member

Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 5

styling links

HI,

I am pretty new to Textpattern and have some basic questions about styling navigation links.

I was wondering how to apply hooks to categories and nested categories so that if a person is on a certain page the links would be styled to indicate that.

For Example:
If I have three main Categories on a page- MUSIC, DANCING, PAINTING,
and the visitor has clicked “MUSIC” and then “blues”. I would like to style both of those links to show the visitor where they are within the site.
As indicated below:

>MUSIC
jazz
>blues
classical
DANCING
PAINTING

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW: I do know how to style the top level category link with the

<txp:category_list active_class=“class name”/>

but that seems to only apply a hook to the parent level and when I click on the child of the parent- neither have a hook. I would like to apply a hook to both the parent and the child at the same time.

Thanks for your time.

Last edited by Dan Hoy (2007-01-07 00:30:06)

#2 2007-01-08 20:39:29

Dan Hoy

New Member

Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 5

Re: styling links

I found out how to do it, (for anybody else who would like to know a good method)

A designer who knows a great deal about TXP sent me an email with some instructions to style active links dynamically:

Quote: “I use a lot of conditional tags like this”:

<a href=”/journal/”<txp:if_section name=“journal”> class=“highlight”</txp:if_section>>Journal</a>

If you need to highlight individual articles, you can use the new (TXP 4.04) tag:

<txp:if_article_id id=“12”> class=“highlight”</txp:if_article_id>

#3 2007-02-05 09:51:07

azw

Member

Registered: 2007-01-29

Posts: 279

Re: styling links

Is there a way to determine if you are on the front page of a section?

I don’t want to have a link to the currently active page, but I’ve not found a way to write a conditional for that.