I have a question for you. How do you deal with the logic of setting links as active in your navs?
Actually, I don't want to know. It's probably awful. I might have a pretty good solution for you. Let's take a look at a very simple nav. These examples all use HAML :
% ul
% li= link to 'Home' , home_path
% li= link_to 'Puppies' , puppies_path
% li= link to 'Kittens' , kittens_path
% li= link to ' Froggies' , froggies_path
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However, we can make this list of people more semantic by using an ul > element and some CSS magic.
Here's what the new HTML ( HAML here) would look like:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 % footer % aside % ul % li = link to ' Dr Nic Williams ' , ' http://drnicwilliams.com/ ' % li = link to ' Bodaniel Jeanes…
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