Session 12: Catch Up and Web CMS

Harvard Extension School
Fall 2020

Course Web Site: https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/

Topics

Presentation contains 19 slides

Javascript Helping with Navigation

We can use JavaScript to make sure we have the right navigation for the page!

Web Navigation Systems

Where am I?
Where can I go?
- What is close by?
- What is further away?
Where have I been?

Don't Make Me Think: Navigation

it tells us what's here
it tells us how to use the site
it gives us confidence in the people who built it

Various Forms of Navigation

global navigation
site ("tab") navigation
breadcrumb navigation
clamshell navigation

Navigation

Iroquois Constitution

<html>
      <head>
        <title>The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa (Constitution of the Iroquois Nations)</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet"  href="style.css" />
      </head>
      <body id="part1">
        <?php include("inc/header.php"); ?>
        <?php include("inc/nav.php"); ?>
        <main>
          <?php include("inc/content1.php"); ?>
        </main>
        <?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>
      </body>
    </html>

"You are here" with CSS

"You are Here" CSS Example in JSFiddle

you are here

<nav id="navigation">
      <ul id="mainnav">
        <li id="navpart1"><a href="1.shtml">The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa</a></li>
        <li id="navpart2"><a href="2.shtml">Rights, Duties and Qualifications of Lords</a></li>
        <li id="iamhere"><a href="3.shtml">Election of Pine Tree Chiefs</a></li>
        <li id="navpart4"><a href="4.shtml">Names, Duties and Rights of War Chiefs</a></li>
        <li id="navpart5"><a href="5.shtml">Clans and Consanguinity</a></li>
        <li id="navpart6"><a href="6.shtml">Official Symbolism</a></li>
        <li id="navpart7"><a href="7.shtml">Laws of Adoption</a></li>
        <li id="navpart8"><a href="8.shtml">Laws of Emigration</a></li>
        <li id="navpart9"><a href="9.shtml">Rights of Foreign Nations</a></li>
        <li id="navpart10"><a href="10.shtml">Rights and Powers of War</a></li>
        <li id="navpart11"><a href="11.shtml">Treason or Secession of a Nation</a></li>
        <li id="navpart12"><a href="12.shtml">Rights of the People of the Five Nations</a></li>
        <li id="navpart13"><a href="13.shtml">Religious Ceremonies Protected</a></li>
        <li id="navpart14"><a href="14.shtml">The Installation Song</a></li>
        <li id="navpart15"><a href="15.shtml">Protection of the House</a></li>
        <li id="navpart16"><a href="16.shtml">Funeral Addresses</a></li>
      </ul>
    </nav>

And the CSS:

#navigation a {
      /* Rules for navigation items */
    }
    #navigation a:hover {
      /* Rules for navigation items */
    }

    /* Rules specific for "you are here" */
    #navigation #iamhere a,
    #navigation #iamhere a:hover {
      /* Rules for the "you are here" item */
    }

"You are here" with JavaScript

View this technique in action.
Example in JSFiddle

Each body is uniquely identified (id)
Each navigation list item gets an id
CSS rule for id="iamhere"
JavaScript to set the "iamhere" id

Note the id of the body:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Election of Pine Tree Chiefs (Constitution of the Iroquois Nations)</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet"  href="style.css" />
      </head>
      <body id="part3">
        <?php include("inc/header.php"); ?>
        <?php include("inc/nav.php"); ?>
        <main>
          <?php include("inc/content3.php"); ?>
        <main>
        <?php include("inc/footer.php"); ?>
      </body>
    </html>

Each navigation item has an id:

<nav id="navigation">
    <ul id="mainnav">
    <li id="navpart1"><a href="1.shtml">The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa</a></li>
    <li id="navpart2"><a href="2.shtml">Rights, Duties and Qualifications of Lords</a></li>
    <li id="navpart3"><a href="3.shtml">Election of Pine Tree Chiefs</a></li>
    <li id="navpart4"><a href="4.shtml">Names, Duties and Rights of War Chiefs</a></li>
    <li id="navpart5"><a href="5.shtml">Clans and Consanguinity</a></li>
    <li id="navpart6"><a href="6.shtml">Official Symbolism</a></li>
    <li id="navpart7"><a href="7.shtml">Laws of Adoption</a></li>
    <li id="navpart8"><a href="8.shtml">Laws of Emigration</a></li>
    <li id="navpart9"><a href="9.shtml">Rights of Foreign Nations</a></li>
    <li id="navpart10"><a href="10.shtml">Rights and Powers of War</a></li>
    <li id="navpart11"><a href="11.shtml">Treason or Secession of a Nation</a></li>
    <li id="navpart12"><a href="12.shtml">Rights of the People of the Five Nations</a></li>
    <li id="navpart13"><a href="13.shtml">Religious Ceremonies Protected</a></li>
    <li id="navpart14"><a href="14.shtml">The Installation Song</a></li>
    <li id="navpart15"><a href="15.shtml">Protection of the House</a></li>
    <li id="navpart16"><a href="16.shtml">Funeral Addresses</a></li>
    </ul>
    </nav>

And the CSS:

#navigation a {
      /* Rules for navigation items */
    }
    #navigation a:hover {
      /* Rules for navigation items */
    }

    /* Rules specific for "you are here" */
    #navigation #iamhere a,
    #navigation #iamhere a:hover {
      /* Rules for the "you are here" item */
    }

And the JavaScript (using jQuery) that finds the correct navigation item and sets the id attribute value to "iamhere":

$(document).ready(function(){
      var mybodyid = $('body').attr('id');
      var mynavid = '#nav' + mybodyid;
      /* e.g. for 3.shtml:
          mybodyid is 'part3'
          mynavid  is '#navpart3'
       */
      $(mynavid).attr('id','iamhere');
    });

Pages from Parts and Clamshell Navigation

Here we take advantage of CSS selectors in JQuery, along with "parents" and "children" and "show" and "hide" methods.

Set "iamhere" id
Close all nested lists
Show parents of "iamhere"
Show children of "iamhere"

clamshell

$(document).ready(function(){
      console.log("Ready!");
      var mybodyid = $('body').attr('id');
      var mynavid = '#nav_' + mybodyid;
      console.log("mybodyid is " + mybodyid);
      console.log("mynavid is " + mynavid);

      // Set iamhere id
      $(mynavid).attr('id','iamhere');

      // hide all nested lists
      $('#navigation ul ul').hide();

      // show parents of "iamhere"
      $('#iamhere').parents().show();

      // show children of "iamhere"
      $('#iamhere').children().show();
});