that works great many thanks.
have got this set up to show the 'blog' as active if the visitor is on either blog.php or blogarchive.php
<div class="container pulldown"> <a class="link-text first-level-button <?php echo(($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']=="/about.php" || $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']=="/blogarchive.php" || $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']=="/blogarticle.php")?"active":""); ?>" href="blog.php">blog</a> </div>
2 questions about this.
1) is there a more 'elegant' or efficient way to schieve the same result?
2) how would i get a blog article (the urls are being rewrittent for these) to also show the blog nav point as active?