// Dynamic Breadcrumbs
// Written by Harry Love
// Email: hlove@u.washington.edu
// Use at your own risk.
// Feel free to use, personalize, improve, and distribute.
// Last update: September 2, 2003
// To place breadcrumbs in your page, save this
// file to a directory that makes sense to you.
// Link to it in the portion of your web page.
// In the portion of your page,
/* paste the following line of code:
DO NOT COPY THIS LINE */
// ***************************
// BEGIN BASIC CUSTOMIZATION *
// ***************************
// Starting Point: 1 = domain, 2 = 1st directory, 3 = 2nd directory, etc.
// Must be specified as an integer; no floating point numbers.
// ***Note*** If the starting number is greater than the number of
// directories you have, the URL will be undefined.
var startPoint = 1; // idea from Hassan Schroeder
// Separator: set the character(s) that will be used to
// separate each of the breadcrumb links.
// Set the space in between each link by
// specifying a number of non-breaking spaces ( ).
// Theoretically, the separator could be any valid HTML.
// The default separator is a "greater than(>)" symbol (>)
// surrounded by two non-breaking spaces.
var sep = " > "
// Starting Name: setting startName to "domain" will
// use the full domain name (www.yourdomain.com).
// Any other text will be used literally.
// E.g., specifying "Home" will use "Home" as the first
// link in the chain.
// ***Note*** if startPoint is greater than 1, it will start
// the chain at a point beyond the domain. startName will
// be used for the name of the first link, regardless of where it
// starts.
var startName = "Massachusetts Website Directory";
// Uppercase or lowercase directory names? If
// uppercase is set to yes, the first character
// in each of the directory names will be capitalized.
// If allUppercase is set to yes, the entire directory
// name will be capitalized for each directory.
var uppercase = "yes";
var allUppercase = "no";
// Uppercase, Part 2: If your directory and document title names contain
// special characters to separate text (like an underscore) and you would like to replace
// those with white spaces (or some other character) when the text is displayed in the
// Web page, set replaceSpecialCharacters to yes. The default is "yes."
// If you would like the character immediately following the
// special character to be capitalized, set specialCharactersUpper to yes.
// The default is "yes."
// ***Note***: If uppercase is set to "no" above, the
// specialCharactersUpper variable is ignored.
// You can specify any number of characters or strings to be replaced
// by naming them in the array "charactersToReplace" listed below. The first
// string in quotes is the string to be replaced. The second string of characters
// is what will be used to replace the first string. The default array below
// replaces the underscore character (_) with a non-breaking space ( ). To
// replace any other characters, simply copy/paste the first bracketed line of the array,
// including the brackets and the trailing comma.
// Then, replace the first and second strings with your strings.
// Advanced users can define regular expressions and replace matches with other strings.
// As stated below, leave the last line of the array alone.
// Also, do not replace the backslash character (/). Doing so will break the script. You're
// welcome to try it, of course, but don't say I didn't warn you.
var replaceSpecialCharacters = "yes";
var specialCharactersUpper = "yes";
var charactersToReplace = new Array (
[ "_" , " " ],
[ "/\s/g" , " " ],
[ "Harry Love: UW Staff Member: " , " " ],
[ "leave this alone" , "leave this alone" ]);
// Endpoint: how do you want the script to handle a
// URL that ends in a directory name? E.g., if the URL
// is http://www.mydomain.com/start/, do you want the
// script to write the name of the directory or the
// title of the default document in this directory?
// You have 2 choices: directory or title.
var endPoint = "title";
// *************************
// END BASIC CUSTOMIZATION *
// *************************
var d=document;
var url = d.location.href;
var ttl = d.title;
var endChar = url.substr(url.length-1);
// Replace the "//" in "http://www.mydomain.com" with "/" and store that in the url variable.
url=url.replace("//","/");
var urlText = url;
// Split the URL into segments and store them in an array using "/" as a delimiter.
var urlLinkArray=url.split('/');
// If startName is set to domain, get the domain name here
if(startName=="domain")
{
var y;
startName="";
for(x=0;x=1&&y'+startName+'');
}
else
{
// Write the first crumb. Use startName for the text.
// Make it lowercase
startName = startName.toLowerCase();
d.write(''+startName+'');
}
// If there are more directories, use this code.
// Otherwise, exit.
if(urlL>2)
{
// Loop through the remaining segments of the array.
for(x=startPoint+1;x-1)
{
// If we are using the directory name
// for the last segment...
if(endPoint=="directory")
{
// Write the directory name to the page, then exit.
d.write(sep+''+linkName[x]+'');
break;
}
else
{
if(lcase!="yes")
{
// This is the last segment.
// Write it to the page, then exit.
d.write(sep+''+ttl+'');
break;
}
else
{
// This is the last segment.
// Make it lowercase.
// Write it to the page, then exit.
ttl = ttl.toLowerCase();
d.write(sep+''+ttl+'');
break;
}
}
}
// Otherwise, use this code...
else
{
// Add the current start segment to the previous start segment
// and add a backslash to the end.
start=start+urlLinkArray[x]+"/";
// Write the link to the page with sep as a separator.
d.write(sep+''+linkName[x]+'');
}
}
// Otherwise, this is the last segment...
else
{
// Add the current segment to the previous segment
// but do not add a backslash.
start=start+urlLinkArray[x];
// If this segment is a directory...
if(endChar=="/")
{
// Write the last segment to the page with sep as a separator.
d.write(sep+''+linkName[x]+'');
}
// Otherwise this segment is a filename...
else
{
// Write the link to the page with sep as a separator.
// Use the document title for the segment name.
d.write(sep+''+ttl+'');
}
}
}
}
}