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20 Providing navigation in HTML > 20.2 Generating trails of links > 20.2.1 Understanding trails of links


20.2.1 Understanding trails of links

A trail of links, often called a “breadcrumb trail”, typically looks something like this:

Home & Garden > Kitchen > Small appliances > Coffee makers

The trail does not necessarily consist of links someone followed to reach a given page; instead, it represents the hierarchical position of the page in the structure of the HTML document.

Each heading in your FrameMaker document that has subheadings can be used as a link in a trail leading to successively lower subheadings. For each trail of links Mif2Go inserts the current value of predefined macro <$_trail>, which consists of the following:

Starting HTML code for the trail

Text of each item in the trail (content of the heading in question)

Separator code between items in the trail

Ending code for the trail.

Except for the very last item, a trail of links can include only headings at which file splits occur; see §18.2 Splitting files.

Trails of links are not compatible with [HTMLOptions]SmartSplit (see §18.2.2.3 Preventing splits that leave dangling headings). If you set SmartSplit=Yes, wherever a heading level is missing the previous heading in the trail will be duplicated. The link will be correct, but the heading text will not.



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