Branching records structure + "accordion" pages

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People,

Mainly as a Rails learning exercise I have been thinking about converting my plain HTML + JS "accordion" site:

   http://philiprhoades.org

to Rails to enable a faster and more general-purpose UI for adding new pages and info. What I would like is a branching tree structure of accordion pages but I am trying to work out how this structure might be represented in the DB . .

Comments about whether this is a sensible thing to attempt and how the DB record structure might work are appreciated . .

Thanks,

Phil.

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Hi Philip I don 't think a DB for you navigation is going to solve your problem. I think you need to incorporate Bread Crumbs into your pages.

For example once you go to this page http://freezephil.org/ you have no way of getting back to the Previous Page or Home Page.

Solution One https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_breadcrumbs.asp

Solution Two uses Bootstrap https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/breadcrumb/

Cheers Dave

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David,

Hi Philip I don 't think a DB for you navigation is going to solve your problem. I think you need to incorporate Bread Crumbs into your pages.

For example once you go to this page http://freezephil.org/ you have no way of getting back to the Previous Page or Home Page.

Solution One How To Make a Breadcrumb Navigation

Solution Two uses Bootstrap Breadcrumb · Bootstrap

Thanks for the quick response! I will have a look at those links.

Regards,

Phil.