Navigation Line

Navigation line elements are used to indicate a user’s location whilst surfing your website. They are made up of hyperlinks to all web pages that are located between the currently active web page and your website’s root homepage.

Navigation line elements are generally used to indicate a user's location whilst surfing your website. They are made up of hyperlinks to all web pages that are located between the currently active web page and your website's root homepage.

A navigation line
A typical navigation line.

When in administration mode, click the Edit hyperlink above a navigation line to update it.

Updating a navigation line
Updating a navigation line.

The Page Whose Navigation Line Is Displayed field is used to specify a web page whose hierarchy is displayed. You can specify a web page by entering its title. If more than one web page exists with the same title, you must be more specific about how you select a web page. For example, suppose your website contains two folders with title "2008", one with parent folder "Photos" and the other with parent folder "Events". Then you would need to enter "Photos, 2008" or "Events, 2008" rather than "2008".

The Page Whose Navigation Line Is Displayed can be, and generally is, left blank. In this case, the field will automatically be updated so it is set to the value of the currently active web page. This is useful if a navigation line element is placed in a zone on a web page near the root of your website. This content may then be inherited by web pages further down your web page hierarchy. However, whenever a web page that inherits this content is viewed, the navigation line will automatically update to show the hyperlinks of all web pages that are located between the active page and your website's root homepage.

Finally, when you have finished updating a navigation line element, click the OK button to return to the previous page. You should not use your browser's back button.