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[Guest]

I made a Web page with DWT. I am thinking that I have to make the navigation
menu in my website an editable region, so that I can make the links *not*
highlighted when I am on that particular page. But then I can't update the
nav menu. Any solutions?

 

[Guest]

I take it you're using a Link Bar Based On Navigation Structure component. If
so, it should behave the same regardless of wehther you add it to a page
directly, by means of a DWT, or by means of shared borders.

If this doesn't answer your question, please ask again and explain in more
detail what youl're doing.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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[Guest]

You are very kind to help. I am not using a link bar, I just made my own
little side menu to navigate through my website. It is very simple, I want it
to look how I want it to look, so I don't want to use a link bar, correct?
Anyhow, I want to be able to update the look of the menu like I can with the
rest of the site (I'm using DWT), but then again I want to make the links not
active if they are on the page they are navigating to. For instance, if I
click to go to the "contact" page of my website, I want that to be greyed
out, not active, so I *do* have to modify that particular funtion of the
menu. Is there some trick to make it so you can make it an UNeditable region,
but make the links not be active if they are linked to the page that you are
on?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Not directly
The only way to "automatically" make the links different in an uneditable region is by using some sort of DHTML and JavaScript to
write the image/link code based on the page/link status



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| You are very kind to help. I am not using a link bar, I just made my own
| little side menu to navigate through my website. It is very simple, I want it
| to look how I want it to look, so I don't want to use a link bar, correct?
| Anyhow, I want to be able to update the look of the menu like I can with the
| rest of the site (I'm using DWT), but then again I want to make the links not
| active if they are on the page they are navigating to. For instance, if I
| click to go to the "contact" page of my website, I want that to be greyed
| out, not active, so I *do* have to modify that particular funtion of the
| menu. Is there some trick to make it so you can make it an UNeditable region,
| but make the links not be active if they are linked to the page that you are
| on?
|
| "Jim Buyens" wrote:
|
| > I take it you're using a Link Bar Based On Navigation Structure component. If
| > so, it should behave the same regardless of wehther you add it to a page
| > directly, by means of a DWT, or by means of shared borders.
| >
| > If this doesn't answer your question, please ask again and explain in more
| > detail what youl're doing.
| >
| > Jim Buyens
| > Microsoft FrontPage MVP
| > http://www.interlacken.com
| > Author of:
| > *----------------------------------------------------
| > |\---------------------------------------------------
| > || Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
| > || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
| > ||---------------------------------------------------
| > || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
| > || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
| > || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
| > || (All from Microsoft Press)
| > |/---------------------------------------------------
| > *----------------------------------------------------
| >
| >
| > "Sally N" wrote:
| >
| > > I made a Web page with DWT. I am thinking that I have to make the navigation
| > > menu in my website an editable region, so that I can make the links *not*
| > > highlighted when I am on that particular page. But then I can't update the
| > > nav menu. Any solutions?

 

[Ronx]

If you use your own links bar then you have to choose:

1) Update from a central place (DWT or Include Page) and have *every* link
active.

2) Make the Links editable (DWT editable region) on each page, but the
links will have to be updated on each individual page if a new page is
added/removed. (FrontPage will take care of pages being renamed or moved,
provided the links are not JavaScript.)

3) Use JavaScript (or server-side ASP, PHP Perl etc. code) to write each
link on the page. The script will check the Link against the page name and
make it an active link or plain text/image. FrontPage cannot manage these
links if pages are moved/renamed.

4) Use FrontPage navigation components.


I use option 1 on most pages, and 3 on others.

 

[Guest]

Have you tried File-Properties-Formatting