Using a Variable in an <a href statement

[malineau]

I would like to be able to open a link utilising a variable as the destination. Something like <a href=variablename><\a> where variablename specifies a page address within the website. But I can't work out how to parse the variable into the href statement.

Basically I'm trying to produce a sort of breadcrumb trail, such that at the top of each page a user has a sequential list of the pages he has visited up until now - these are passed url encoded (it's simple and it doesn't need to be secure). I then strip the passed variable to get the previous page name. I would just like to make the sequential list clickable, such that a user can go back to any page he has already visited.

This may be a complete waste of time, but hey, I want to do it!

[drhowarddrfine]

If you mean something like paragraph 10 of a web page, try this:

If your web site is www.example.com/mypage.html, on the tenth paragraph you would do this:

<p id="thisparagraph">
Some text
</p>

Then, in the anchor of the referring page, you would do this:

<a href="www.example.com/mypage.html#thisparagraph">

Clicking on that link will then jump down to that paragraph of the page.

[malineau]

Not quite what I mean I'm afraid.

I've got the site set such that each preceeding page passes it's address to the next page via url encoding (i.e. www.site.com?page=page1.html).

The next page picks up the "page" variable. I would like to use that variable in an <a href statement, such that when I display the sequential list of previously visited pages (using the same variables passed by previous pages), they are displayed as links such that the user can use them to backtrack.

I know one can use the history in Javascript, but that doesn't give the explicit page addresses, (only -1 or -n etc ) which is not what I want.

Cheers

[drhowarddrfine]

Neither html nor css would be able to do that so you would need a server side language/program.

[malineau]

Thanks for that.

Bums - or other epithets. No wonder I couldn't find anything on the web. I take it that includes Javascript? It seems such a simple, straightforward thing.

Cheers

[AricC]

Thanks for that.

Bums - or other epithets. No wonder I couldn't find anything on the web. I take it that includes Javascript? It seems such a simple, straightforward thing.

Cheers

Yes Javascript is server side. You could do it in PHP or ASP. Here is a link to our PHP forum.

HTH,
Aric

[natp]

I think this is what you want:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;a herf="</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="theUrl"></xsl:value-of>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">">Click Me&lt;/a></xsl:text>
 

Sorry, for my poor typing. It should be href not herf.

[drhowarddrfine]

We can forgive you for typos but not for bringing up 3 year old threads.