HTML PHP SPAN ?? Span ID to display value based on the url?

www.mysite.com/?q=portraits#

I want a span within my menu to display the current section (ie. portraits)

I'm sure this is simple. Your help is much apprecia开发者_开发百科ted!

it's been a long time since i've used php, but the the variable you are referring to is what's known as a query string parameter, which is passed as a $_GET array in php. you can access the specific variable by using a string indexer of the array. in your markup:

<span><?php echo $_GET["q"]; ?></span>

You'll probably have to use javascript, if you're not working with PHP or something like that.

How to extract the get-query with javascript is explained here: How can I get query string values in JavaScript?

Then you can fork the result and add/remove content to/from the element you want to manipulate.