Using PHP & CSS with navigation bars

Junkie

Can you guys give me some input into making a navigation bar using PHP and CSS. Do you use a linked style sheet or do you embed the styles directly into the PHP include file? I was wondering if it is more effective to just put the styles directly into the nav.php include file. Thanks. 🆒

DESIGNGRAPHY

Use linked style sheet. To use styles is possible for PHP skin change.

"I was wondering if it is more effective to just put the styles directly into the nav.php include file."
If you put style in nav.php include(); then you'll have double styles included <head>

_theworks

You could apply the CSS directly to the html elements like so:


<ul style="display:inline;">
 <li>item</li>
 <li>item</li>
 <li>item</li>
</ul>

leatherback

_theworks wrote:
You could apply the CSS directly to the html elements like so:
<ul style="display:inline;">
 <li>item</li>
 <li>item</li>
 <li>item</li>
</ul>

Do NOT do this, unless there is a VERY good reason to do it.

It is hard to change when you modify your styles
It takes much more space (=downloadtime).

Use linked stylesheets preferably (The style will only need to be downloaded once for the site). Only if you deviate from the main stylesheet, consider using styes in the page head.

e.g.,

<div id="nav">
 
<a class="menu0" href="http://www.domain.nl">home</a>
<a class="menu0" href="http://www.domain.nl/webdesign/index.php">About </a>
<a class="menu1" href="http://www.domain.nl/weblog/index.php">My Weblog</a>
</div>

Jelle.