RE: Navigation on web pages

I believe Joe is correct that you could modify the template and/or the style
sheet to indent the navigation.  To get drop down navigation I had to use a
separate tool, unless I missed something in wdsc. Try your web diagram to
identify parent and child pages. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:54 AM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Navigation on web pages

> From: GKelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Thanks Michael,
> I've used this before, and it does create great popup menus. Since
this
> is an in-house project, we don't want to spend any extra money. Do you 
> know if there is any way for Web Site Designer to distinguish between 
> parent and children links or am I out of luck? Even just a slight
indent
> from the side navigation would help. Maybe this is something IBM might 
> want to consider for the future if it can't be done currently?

Actually, the navigation menus are created by "snippets", which are included
as part of the template.  If you look in the generated code from the
template, you'll see the reference to the snippet; it will look something
like this:

<!-- siteedit:navbar spec="/MySite/theme/footer.html"
target="sibling"-->

When you open up the file footer.html, you will see a macro language that
you can modify to create your own navigation widgets.  There's really no
documentation except for the chapter I wrote in my WDSC book, but if you
take the time to bang through it, you can figure it out.

Here's some insight:

<!--siteedit:forEach var="item" items="${sitenav.items}"-->

This is a standard forEach loop.  Since it's working on sitenav.items, I
know that the invocation tag used the target attribute to specify a set of
web pages.

 <!--siteedit:choose-->

This statement start a standard case construct.

  <!--siteedit:when test="${item.self}"-->
               <tr>
                  <td class="nav-s-highlighted">${item.label}</td>
               </tr>
  <!--/siteedit:when-->

Joe


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