Creating Navigation

Revision as of 17:28, 28 June 2007

Most people use CmsJspNavBuilder to create navigation menus on the fly.

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are a trail of links that indicate where you are in the hierarchy. They look like: Home >> About >> Staff

So you would know you were in the about section, looking at staff pictures.

You can create them using the CmsJspNavBuilder. Here is an example:

CmsJspActionElement element = new CmsJspActionElement(pageContext, request, response);
List breadcrumbParts = element.getNavigation().getNavigationBreadCrumb();
Iterator i = breadcrumbParts.iterator();
String path = "";
while(i.hasNext()) {
        CmsJspNavElement el = (CmsJspNavElement)i.next();
        path += el.getFileName();
        if(el.isInNavigation()) out.print("<a href=\"" + path + "\">" + el.getNavText() +"</a> > ");
}