Tabs menu in php/css

Hi everyone, I am trying to put a tabs menu on my php site. My goal is
having a link change color when clicked, and staying that way until the user
stays in the section of the site it links to.
I was thinking about using CSS and the A:active tag, but the link changes
color only while clicking on it, and then goes back to it's default color
when the linked section is open.
Can anyone help me? I am sure there is a php command for this, or a right
way to do it in CSS.

What about using the code

list($temp, $rootdir) = split('[/]', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

if ($rootdir == 'news' )
{
<a href='link' class='selected'>Link</a>
}
else
{
<a href='link' class='unselected'>Link</a>
}

And then you'll need to define in your CSS
the unselected for both a:visited and normal a

Hope that helps, obviously you would need to repeat that code for each of
your links. Its what I've done with the menu system on my site.


"Zink" <joman@zibi.com> wrote in message
news:AUl_c.14212$G36.7158@tornado.fastwebnet.it...
> Hi everyone, I am trying to put a tabs menu on my php site. My goal is
> having a link change color when clicked, and staying that way until the
user
> stays in the section of the site it links to.
> I was thinking about using CSS and the A:active tag, but the link changes
> color only while clicking on it, and then goes back to it's default color
> when the linked section is open.
> Can anyone help me? I am sure there is a php command for this, or a right
> way to do it in CSS.
>
>

Zink wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am trying to put a tabs menu on my php site. My goal is
> having a link change color when clicked, and staying that way until the user
> stays in the section of the site it links to.
> I was thinking about using CSS and the A:active tag, but the link changes
> color only while clicking on it, and then goes back to it's default color
> when the linked section is open.
> Can anyone help me? I am sure there is a php command for this, or a right
> way to do it in CSS.

IIRC the order of the link status is important in the css - try setting
the order to:

a:link
a:visted
a:hover
a:active

Regards,

Andy

Thanks guys!