Hi,

So I'm kind of in a rush as someone handed me a laundry list of stuff and I can't figure this out right now. If you visit this page, there is an arrow on the pages when you click on the page and they are active. I need it so that the page itself is that color too, any ideas how I can do this??

Much appreciated for any potential help provided. I tried to add an "active" element to the left nav but it doesn't seem to be working.

http://www.escusa.com/partner.php

Thanks!

Do you mean something like this?

Simple DHTML Tabs

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply --- not quite what I want though. I just want it so that when a page is clicked on the left navigation, the text stays yellow, similar to how the yellow arrow appears when you click on a page, I just want the text to stay yellow too. Lil help?

THanks!

The active links are defined by the class indicator. Open the .css document, find the row with .indicator {...} and just add any color you want, as in

.indicator {
   color: #f00;
   /* Other styles... */
}

Oh, I see you have already set a color.
The thing is, your color attribute is being overrided by the a, a:link, a:active and a:hover styles. Just move those styles up in the document, so that they are defined before the indicator class. And also, change .indicator to a.indicator

EDIT: Or, perhaps easier yet, since the indicator is only used once per page, simply change it from being a class style to an id style. Change class="indicator" to id="indicator" in the html and change .indicator to #indicator in the css. An id style will overide a class style or a tag style such as a and a:hover.

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried what you said, but still can't quite get the active text to stay yellow when "active". Not quite sure what the issue is, I've tried a few different things and it should pretty much be set to whatever the .indicator class is set to for the color. I'd rather not want to change the classes to id since I have the indicator class set up in a lot of areas of the site it would take a while to change them.

Ah, my bad. Didn't see the containing div and the list. The style is being overrided by the #subnav styles. To set the indicator class explicitly, change it to this:

#subnav .mlink .indicator {
    /* styles here */
}

You're a scholar and a gentleman, thanks a lot for the help, I very much so appreciate it.