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'Save as web' tab navigation with jQuery - Part 2

In the first part of this post I looked at a jQuery based approach for adding tab navigation to Visio's Save as web output and the steps required to implement this.  In this post I'm going to go into a little more detail about what the code we added is actually doing.

'Save as web' tab navigation with jQuery - Part 1

A recent newsgroup question asked whether it would be possible to add tab style navigation to Visio's Save As Web Page output.  There are a number of ways you might tackle this and here is a JavaScript based approach and more specifically, one that uses JQuery. 

You can see a live example here, but note that this is an Internet Explorer solution as only IE supports VML, (the vector based image format that Visio generates). 

I'll split this into two posts.  The first will look at how to create the functionality and the second, if you're interested, will focus on what the code is actually doing.

Editing the Save As Web details table

Spotted another Save As Web question today that I thought I'd have a go at.  The question basically asks how you can edit some of the default values in the web page's details table...

Changing a Save As Web cursor

I don't know what it is about Visio's Save As Web Page function that I find intriguing, but every time I spot a question about it I feel bound to dive in and take a look.  The most recent question in the newsgroups asks how to change the mouse cursor when the user hovers over a shape with a hyperlink.

Although there's no way to change the this type of behaviour through the UI, there's a fairly easy fix if you're prepared to do a bit of post-publish text editing...

Link to specific page in 'Save As Web'

Today's question - well, this week's anyway - from the newsgroups is how do you link to a specific page within a 'Save As Web' site?

Escaping from Save as Web Page links

Following some recent interest in a newsgroup question I answered earlier this year, about how to make Shape Data hyperlinks live in a web page, I thought I'd describe the steps in a little more detail.  My discovery of this workaround is due to Chris Roth (aka the VisGuy.com) for pointing out the likely direction to look for a solution, so my thanks to you Chris.