making a javascript menus links work

davidjaymz posted this at 08:49 — 13th August 2001.

Joined: Jul 2001

Hi,
I'm using a javascript nav menu and it works fine when i have it in its own folder and all of the html files in the root folder. But I decided that to tidy up the folder I would store the html in seperate folders. EG:
root folder:
JSandCSS (folder)
News (folder) {contains .html files}
some .html files.

Now how do i get the JS menu to go to the right place. I know that originally it just had to send to the root folder so it didn't matter what page you were on. But now if I call news from the root folder it goes to the news page (JS link as news/newspage.html) but if from newspage I go somewhere else it goes to news/news/latestnews.html. which doesn't exist.

I think i need to define absolute address from the root folder. but i'm not sure? does anyone have any ideas or should i go back to having one big folder with lots of .html files in it...

Thanks again

DavidJaymz

fabbrett posted this at 14:28 — 13th August 2001.

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Joined: Aug 2001

try using the full URL
eg.
http://www.domainname.com/news/newspage.html

Suzanne posted this at 17:47 — 13th August 2001.

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If it's an option for you, you can use the third option -- relative to the root urls.

So instead of "news/news.html" you would have "/news/news.html" which tells the browser to ask for the document starting at the root (index.html). The extra forward slash is the key.

Suzanne

davidjaymz posted this at 09:42 — 14th August 2001.

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Joined: Jul 2001

ok
at the moment i'm using the full URL and it seems to be working... just can't surf the site locally...
oh well

DavidJaymz