Hi, I'm just starting with Zope, (as a lot of other folk around here, it seems) and I'm a bit ovewhelmed (same again :) Anyways, I'm in love, in just a few hours and just using <dtml-var ...> I built a (skeleton) site that I'd never would have considered even starting using straight html or something else less powerful. Again, as a lot of other people seem to be doing these days, I built a menu structure using tables. I'd like to have the background color of the cell that has been selected to change to a different color, to reflect where in the site you are at the moment. I came up with the ``code'' below: [ ... Table header ... ] <tr align=center> <td <dtml-if "title == 'Título'"> bgcolor=<dtml-var bgcurrent> <dtml-else> bgcolor=<dtml-var bgmenu> </dtml-if>> <a href="/ABMEC/Consulta/Titulo"> Título </a> </td> </tr> <tr align=center> <td <dtml-if "title == 'Autor'"> bgcolor=<dtml-var bgcurrent> <dtml-else> bgcolor=<dtml-var bgmenu> </dtml-if>> <a href="/ABMEC/Consulta/Autor"> Autor </a> </td> </tr> [ ... Lots of nearly identical rows ... ] </table> In the index_html documento in each folder mentioned in the anchor tag, I have set the title to the string I'm using the comparison. This seems to work (as long as I have unique titles! (not really that bad, as a matter of fact, but not really nice, either)). Clearly, all those repeated if's are something that would go, with a more conventional programming language, into a subroutine or macro or whatever. I tried to create a DTML method to encapsulate it, but I couldn't figure out how to pass to it the argument I wanted the title to be compared to. I think perhaps I'm still locked into a too conventional mindset (my being primarily a fortran programmer and all :) So, I'd like to ask if there is a nicer cleaner way of doing what I wanted to in the first place (ie, changing the background color of one particular table cell depending on which folder is being currently viewed), or alternatively how can I write a DTML method with an argument, to avoid repeating all those <dmtl-if>'s. Many thanks, Ramiro. PS: Thanks for making everything 8 bit clean :) Sorry if this is too simple minded, I did try a lot on my own before asking. -- Ramiro || rbw@demec.ufpe.br