Asp dynamically created pages - need to set menu items as 'active'

Hi,

I have a series of dynamically created HTML pages. This query relates to the menu - my issue is that I need to set the 'a:active' state for the relevant menu items to show the current page, but as the pages are dynamicallly created, not static I'm not sure how I can go about doing this.

The menu is defined in a menu.ascx file, and then called into each of the HTML pages using asp.

Just to clarify - Ordinarily, on static pages you would have something like:

<div id="menu" class="menu">
<menu id="active" href="someurl">HOME</a>
<menu id="inactive" href="someurl">ABOUT US</a>
</div>

or

<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li id="active" href="someurl">HOME</li>
<li id="inactive" href="someurl">ABOUT US</li>
</ul>
</div>

And then the home page (for example) would show a different icon to the rest of the menu -as defined by CSS (.menu active/inactive).

Each page would have a different 'active' menu item - however as these are not static pages - I am unable to do that.

Using a:visited would make every menu item show the 'current' icon -and once it had been viewed - it would never return to the original state

I was thinking that I would be able to use some sort of script in the head to facilitate this need - something like:

if pageID = 459
then menu id 'home' = active

(or something akin to that)
-and then go through the seperate menu items/pages.

I think some sort of script would be the only viable solution - although I could be wrong as I'm unfamiliar with Asp - any help please?

Many many thaks in advance!

Mike

You could check the URL of the page with VBScript using something like so:



Then perform the check inline on each link like so:



Simple but it works...

Tim