Current Nav Highlighting

[mwdewitt]

I am sorry to ask all of these silly questions all the time, but being new to this, I keep running into problems. Sometimes it is a simple fix, like closing a “ul” tag, and sometimes it is more complicated, like activating the mod_rewrite module, but you guys have always been there to help me out. So, again, I have encountered another problem that I need help with.

In Chris Coyier’s video #36 (Current Nav Highlighting), I followed everything, but it does not seem to be working. Here is the code I have that is relevant to the situation (header.php):

$page = $_SERVER;

$page = str_replace("/","",$page);

$page = str_replace(".php","",$page);

$page = str_replace("?s=","",$page);

$page = $page ? $page : 'default'

?>









































Home


Projects


Studio


Forums








Support

And here is my CSS code (style.css):

ul#main-nav li a:hover,

ul#extra-nav li a:hover,

body#home ul#main-nav li.home a,

body#projects ul#main-nav li.projects a,

body#studio ul#main-nav li.studio a,

body#forums ul#main-nav li.forums a,

body#support ul#extra-nav li.support a,

body#default ul#main-nav li.home a {

background: #FFFFFF;

color: #333333;

}

If you need to see anything else to help me solve why this is not working, just let me know, and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you in advance!

[mwdewitt]

I hate to bump for bump’s sake, but this is almost on the fourth page and no one has yet attempted to help me on this. I would greatly appreciate any solutions you guys can give me on how to solve this little problem. Thank you!

[jamygolden]

What does a typical url look like to you? What exactly are you trying to take from the url and put as the body id?

[mwdewitt]

Well, since I am working locally at the moment, my URL’s look a little something like this:

http://localhost/acidhouse/

Et cetera. What I am trying to do is take the last word in the permalink, so like, let us say there is a “Projects” page with the URL of:

http://localhost/acidhouse/projects/

Then, I want the body id to be simply “projects.” Right? I think that is how this works. And if someone puts in a random string of letters in the URL, it will default to the home page.

[mwdewitt]

This was almost to the third page again. I feel like jamy_za was trying to help me, but I am obviously not having an epiphany over this. If someone could simply point out what I am doing wrong here, that would be great. Thanks in advance!

[mwdewitt]

If you watch the video, he talks about how using “current” as the id will not work in this situation. I forget why he says that, but he does. If you want to take a look at the video, it is here:

https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/36-current-nav-highlighting-using-php-to-set-the-body-id/

It’s a bit long, but you can skip most of it, if you just want to see how he codes it. I believe I have everything right, but it does not seem to be working, which would suggest that I do not.

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