You will need to add a class somewhere that you can anchor any unique
styles to.

- Tim

(Please forgive any typos caused by huge fingers on a teeny phone keybard.)

On Aug 2, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Shortie Designs <shortiedesi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry - my original email was unclear - I"m trying to make the current page
> in the navigation bar appear active - so when you are on the page - the name
> of it will appear in different colour font in the navigation bar - this way
> the user knows they they are on the 'home' or 'about us' page.
> Cheers
> Sofia Woods
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) [mailto:p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, 2 August 2010 6:19 PM
> To: Chris F.A. Johnson
> Cc: Shortie Designs; css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
> Subject: Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active
>
>
>
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>>     Why do you want a link to the current page?
>>
>>     Remove the<A>  tags and style it differently.
>
> Whilst I cannot answer for the original enquirer, the most
> common reasons for wanting to link to the current page are :
>
> For consistency (all pages have a consistent set of links)
> Because a Library file, SSI or similar is used to insert
> a fixed set of link.
>
> In neither case can your suggestion be followed as-is.
>
> Philip Taylor
>
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