Tabs

[darrel]

> I was curious to see if some sites such as [url]http://www.apple.com[/url] auto
generate their tabs through programming.

Most sites like that server their content through a content management
system. Many smaller sites do the same these days.

You can programatically do what you want through a variety of technologies:
XSSI (see [url]http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/html/97/39/index1a.html[/url] for
sample), Javascript (not ideal) or a server side scrpting language like ASP
or PHP.

I uses some basic ASP on some sites I do that use a simple if/then statement
to determine whether or not a navigational element should be on or off
depending on the page that is loaded.

-Darrel

[Joshua Brandt]

you could do this with css. zeldman's new book "designing with web
standards" has a discussion of it. or study his site's code for the buttons
in the navbar of zeldman.com, and the linked and embedded styles being
declared in the head. -- the linked stylesheet is the global default style
for the buttons. the embedded style toggles the active page's button to the
"on" state.

HTH
josh


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> I was curious to see if some sites such as [url]http://www.apple.com[/url] auto

generate their tabs through programming. By this I mean you click on a tab
and the tab image changes for that specific page (different color). And then
you have your submenu which displays additional links and they happen to be
images as well. I'm sure the developers created a different color and image
look for the entire navigation bar, but is it possible to put the images
into a script to where you don't have to insert a tab that's considered to
be "on" or look as if it was the "over state" if you were to created a new
HTML document. I guess another example would be [url]http://www.amazon.com[/url]. They
have their navigation set up to where it's displays the user's name inside
one of the tabs as an image - that has to do with some kind of programming.

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> I hope this makes sense and I appreciate any feedback.
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