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Most pages on Writing.Com don't need anything more than standard links, like {item:2301571}. However, pages with multiple long sections, like this one, can benefit from more a more graphical navigation layout. An informational page, like this one, often discusses several distinct aspects of a topic. Those discussions are like chapters in a small book. It's helpful for readers to be able negotiate the various pages. Navigation provides wayfinding tools for a site of this type. Contest pages, which can have distinct sections on prompts, rules, and prizes, are another kind of page where wayfinding can be important for users.

One feature of navigational tools is that they should persist across the content, so that users can find their way back to where they started. Dropnotes persist because we never really leave the page. We just expand some content. Closing a dropnote takes you back to where you started.

There is one problem with dropnotes. Remember, we said that you couldn't put a dropnote inside another dropnote? Yet it looks like we've done exactly that, and more than once. This page, for example, opens as a dropnote you click on the "navigation button," i.e. on the image {image:2301288} The code, which also reduces the image to half-size, is
{dropnote:"{image:2301288-50%}"} {/hide}

So, what gives? There's a dropnote on this page right below here. How'd we do that?

Well, of course there's a trick.

Here's the trick,


How is this different from navigation on websites?
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