? Storing Internal Information In An HTML Document (eg Inside Tags)

Hi,

I need a way of dividing up my site into "departments". What I want is
to be able to allow some JavaScript functions to perform differently based
on what department the current page is assigned to.

For example, if the user clicks on a link in a page, the link fires off
a JS function that checks what department the page is in and does something.
If the user clicks on that link on a different page assigned to a different
department, the function does something else.

What I tried to do was to put in an invisible DIV element in the pages
where the ID attribute of the DIV is "_dept_" and the NAME attribute is
whatever the department is. The JS function looks for the _dept_ element
and reads it's name attribute. The problem with this is that when I try to
validate the page I get an error on the name attribute (not in XHTML
Strict).


What can I do?


thanks.

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Alec S.
alec <@> synetech <.> cjb <.> net

Nevermind, I got a suggestion from someone elsewhere. In case anyone
wants to know, it was to use a meta tag. Brilliant!


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Alec S.
alec <@> synetech <.> cjb <.> net