I'm trying to color a menu of items on an webpage, based on the item currently selected. I know the item chosen, based on $cgi->param('a'), so that part isn't a problem.

I've abstracted the logic into a small, standalone script that looks like this: 

my @menu_options = ('home', 'donate', 'news', 'docs', 'download', 'gal
+lery', 'samples', 'users', 'developers', 'about');

my $items = @menu_options;
my $count = 1;

print qq{
        <div class="sh">
                <span class="doNotDisplay">Navigation:</span>
};

my $style = '';

foreach my $menu_item (@menu_options) {
        $style = qq{style="background-color: #9943ac;"} 
        if ($action eq $menu_item && $action =~ /docs/);

        $style = qq{style="background-color: #d8402b;"} 
        if ($action eq $menu_item && $action =~ /download/);

        $style = qq{style="background-color: #ab0;"} 
        if ($action eq $menu_item && $action =~ /users/);

        $style = qq{style="background-color: #6fab87;"} 
        if ($action eq $menu_item && $action =~ /developers/);

        print qq{\t\t<a href="/$menu_item" $style>$menu_item</a>};
        print " |" if ($count < $items);
        print "\n";
        $count++;
}
print "\t</div>\n";

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In my actual code, I have a dispatch table that looks like this: 

my %dispatch = (
        (map { $_ => \&default } qw(
           home donate news docs download gallery
           docs users developers about
         )),
        samples => sub { \&samples($dbh) },
);

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I'm trying to selectively color the background of the item selected. What am I missing in my sample code above?

I'm only trying to colorize 4 of the 10 menu options, and only one should be colorized at a time. They're in my dispatch table in the production code (not an array like the sample test above; I created that to try to isolate the problem).

Is there a better way to do this?

In reply to Selectively coloring a menu's item members by hacker

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