Can a LINK know its already at its destination and not work. If I am at a page called MyPage.html, and on that page there is a link to it:

<a href="../MyPage.html"><img src="../images/MyPage.gif"></a>

is there a way of it being automatically disabled.

The reason for this is because I have some standard navigation that is used on many pages, and i want to avoid changing code for every page its on.

It is fair to say that i am not using a roll-over image, or link text, so i am only trying to do this to stop;
1. pointless page reloading,
2. the impression of a link to somehwere there's not,

Any help appreciated, Simon.

Not hard to do within a scripting language such as PHP. Simply check the current URL against the URL on the link and change the output if they match.

Any code examples please as I would also be very interested in this.

This should do the trick. I've packaged it in a little function to make life easier. The good thing with this is that you can just chuck the whole menu in an include or something if you like.

Only thing to remember is to use absolute paths (/index.php) rather than relative ones (index.php).

OK, code comes in two parts:

Put this bit up the top of the page, or include it up there:

<?php
// put the test in a function so that you don't have to keep repeating it
function showLink($thisPage,$destination,$linkText){
	if ($thisPage == $destination){
		$output = $linkText;
	} else {
		$output = '<a href="'.$destination.'">'.$linkText.'</a>';
	}
	return $output;
}

// Now find out what page is being viewed.
$thisPage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
?>

Then just do something like the following where you want the menu to appear:

* <?php echo showLink($thisPage,"/test/test.php","Test Page One"); ?><br>
* <?php echo showLink($thisPage,"/test/test2.php","Test Page two"); ?><br>
* <?php echo showLink($thisPage,"/test/test3.php","Test Page three"); ?><br>

Hope that this helps. Let me know.