Comments on: A Body with Class http://postpostmodern.com/instructional/a-body-with-class/ Speaking of web development. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: james http://postpostmodern.com/instructional/a-body-with-class/comment-page-1/#comment-1900 james Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:49:31 +0000 http://postpostmodern.com/?p=228#comment-1900 using class tags on your body is pretty cool, and allows you to let css do the work for detecting current page styles on menu items. A really lazy way so you dont have to do any server-side processing to add a class="current" to menu items and can thus include a "static" tpl file with your main menu once. <code> .history a#history, .about a#about, .faq a#faq { background-color:pink; /* make the current page stand out */ } </code> <code> <a href="/about" rel="nofollow">about</a> <a href="/about/history" rel="nofollow">history</a> <a href="/faq" rel="nofollow">faq</a> </code> using class tags on your body is pretty cool, and allows you to let css do the work for detecting current page styles on menu items. A really lazy way so you dont have to do any server-side processing to add a class=”current” to menu items and can thus include a “static” tpl file with your main menu once.

.history a#history, .about a#about, .faq a#faq { background-color:pink; /* make the current page stand out */ }

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