Ah okay.
On a side note, you could have also used fixed/absolute positioning of
the element, then used jQuery show() and hide() to show the menu bar
if someone clicks on the pull out tab.
Some examples of this on omgpop.com.
Cal
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cal,
>
> Basically, i had to show some links by the side of the page(not the "MAIN"
> content) and was wondering whether there was some consistent and elegant way
> of doing this. I could change the styling of the sidebar and this could
> potentially break in some pages and it was a pain to make the edits in all
> pages.
>
> I used a variant of your solution : i put the sidebar html in a separate
> file(say sidebar.html) , and included it from each of the pages, passing the
> active tab. Check for the tab in sidebar.html and suitably render the links
> or content based on this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -V
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
> <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Can I just clarify what you mean by sidebar?
>> I assume you are talking about a html element with some options inside it,
>> to allow you to navigate through the site?
>> This is (personally) how I'd do it, although others may prefer a different
>> style (you could probably go as far to make this whole thing "classy").
>> (hand typed code, may need re-writing)
>> --- views.py ---
>> page = "dashboard/help/users"
>> RequestContext(request, {
>> 'section' : page.split("/")
>> }
>> --- layout.html ---
>> {% if section.0 = 'dashboard' %}
>> display stuff relating to dashboard only
>> {% if section.1 = 'help' %}
>> display stuff relating to dashboard/help only
>> {% endif %}
>> {% endif %}
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was looking for possible suggestions in implementing sidebars - i have
>>> a truck load of screens and need the sidebar to change dynamically base don
>>> the view. Most of the siderbar-conten is just links.
>>>
>>> I was thiking of including the various sidebar options in the base.html
>>> and then include a flag to check whether it has to be rendered or not; and
>>> in the view pass the relevant flag.
>>>
>>> Any other ideas?
>>>
>>> -venkat
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