From: Samuel Kvarnbrink <samuel@...>
Date: 2004-01-27T03:54:50+09:00
Subject: Re: amrita-nuby question: generate "id="

Since the "id" attribute has a special meaning for Amrita itself, you 
have to use a workaround. If you need to define id attributes (that is, 
id attributes that are to be present in Amrita's output), you can 
insert an "__id__" attribute. During Amrita's processing, all "__id__" 
attributes are renamed to "id" attributes. Something like this should 
do the trick:

tmpl = TemplateText.new <<END
<div __id__="navigation">
   <ul __id__="navlist">
     <li id="links"></li>
   </ul>
</div>
END

data = {:links => ["item 1",
                    a(:__id__ => "active"){"item 2 (active)"},
                    "item 3"]}

> Hi,
> i'm using Amrita to generate static website pages, and having fun with
> it! Now I'd like to have a navigationlist, a list where the items are
> urls; all fine, but I'd like to designate one particular list-item as
> "active", which is defined as id selector in the css-stylesheet for
> the pages.
>
> So the generated html-code should look something like this:
>
> <div id="navigation">
>         <ul id="navlist">
>           <li><a href="home.html">home</a></li>
>           <li id="active"><a href="photos.html">photos</a></li>
>           <li><a href="info.html">info</a></li>
>         </ul>
> </div>
>
> However, I cannot find a way to have Amrita generate the value
> "active" for the id attribute in a list-item. I did manage, as a
> side-test, to use a css class instead of an id selector, and had it
> generated by Amrita, but cannot get it working with the id-selector.
> In my template, I set amrita_id to 'amrita_id'.
>
> So my question is, how to generate a '<<some_tag> id="<some_value>"
> ....>' with Amrita?
>
> thxia,
> Harry
>