current page style...? Options

[Maccabee]

I have seen on some sites, when you click on a nav link when you go the page, that link stays, highlighted or something signifying that you are still on that page. How do you do that? I thought you just used "a:active"? But im trying it out and it isnt working.

[fixtatik]

You could use if statements and use CSS to style the "current" class:

CODE

<ul>
  <li><a<?php if($page == 'link-1') echo ' class="current"'; ?> href="#">Link 1</a></li>
  <li><a<?php if($page == 'link-2') echo ' class="current"'; ?> href="#">Link 2</a></li>
  <li><a<?php if($page == 'link-3') echo ' class="current"'; ?> href="#">Link 3</a></li>
</ul>

Of course, you'll just need to define what the variable $page is. If you have links like yoursite.com/link-1.php, you can get the file name and use that:

CODE

<?php
$page = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];
$page = explode('.php', $page);
$page = $page[0];
?>

In this case, going to yoursite.com/link-1.php, $page is link-1.