Set Home Page with DHTML

DHTML intrinsic behavior gives advantage to changing the user's home page to the current page.

The style block, which goes in the <HEAD> of the document, associates the home page class with the built-in behavior. The inline STYLE on the <SPAN> tag simulates the look and feel of a hot link, but clicking the link doesn't cause a new page to be loaded (IE5 also provides a new feature, to use conditional comments to hide this link from lower browsers).

The style block goes in the page <HEAD>:

 
<STYLE>
<!--
.homepage {behavior:url(#_IE_)}
-->
</STYLE> 
This code can be placed anywhere in the page body: 
<!--#if IE 5#>
<U><SPAN STYLE='color:blue;cursor:hand;'
CLASS=homepage
ONCLICK='this.setHomePage(window.location);'>
Make this your home page</SPAN></U>
<!#endif#-->

We can also change the user's home page to a page other than the current page by replacing window.location in the above example with a specific URL. For example,

 
ONCLICK="this.setHomePage('http://www.myhome.com')"

Internet Explorer first asks the user if they want to change their home page rather than setting it automatically.

Maheshwar D.

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