Persistent State problem

[Irishcash33]

Hi,
A weird thing is occuring and I have no idea why. I was working on a left side navigation in a copy of a html page. I made the nav so part of it will stay open depending on the page. It works great in say examiner copy.html. When I change the file name to just examiner.html, the js code for the state doesn't work. I tried this on a couple of pages and the code only works if the file name has a space and word after it.
Why would this being doing that??? How do I fix this?
example of it working (http://www.clashgraphicdesign.com/uk-site/Products/examiner copy.html)

example of it not working (http://clashgraphicdesign.com/uk-site/Products/examiner.html)

here is the bit of css for the persistent state

<li><a class="qm-startopen qmparent" href="javascript:void(0)">Group Two</a>

here is the bit of js code

//Add-On Code: Show Subs Onload
if(!qmad.sopen){qmad.sopen=new Object();qmad.sopen.log=new Array();if(window.attachEvent)window.attachEvent("onload",qm_sopen_init);else if(window.addEventListener)window.addEventListener("load",qm_sopen_init,1);};function qm_sopen_init(e,go){if(window.qmv)return;if(!go){setTimeout("qm_sopen_init(null,1)",10);return;}var auto_close=false;var i;var ql=qmad.sopen.log;for(i=0;i<10;i++){var a;if(a=document.getElementById("qm"+i)){var ss=qmad[a.id];if(ss&&!ss.showload_active)continue;if(ss&&ss.showload_auto_close)auto_close=true;var dd=a.getElementsByTagName("DIV");for(var j=0;j<dd.length;j++){if(dd[j].idiv&&dd[j].idiv.className.indexOf("qm-startopen")+1){ql.push(dd[j].idiv);var f=dd[j][qp];if(!qm_a(f)){var b=false;for(var k=0;k<ql.length;k++){if(ql[k]==f.idiv)ql[k]=null;}ql.push(f.idiv);f=f[qp];}}}}}var se=0;var sc=0;if(qmad.tree){se=qmad.tree.etype;sc=qmad.tree.ctype;qmad.tree.etype=0;qmad.tree.ctype=0;}for(i=ql.length-1;i>=0;i--){if(ql[i]){qm_oo(new Object(),ql[i],1);if(!auto_close)qm_li=null;}}if(qmad.tree){qmad.tree.etype=se;qmad.tree.ctype=sc;}}

//Add-On Code: Persistent States With Auto Open Subs Option
if(!qmad.sopen_auto){qmad.sopen_auto=new Object();qmad.sopen_auto.log=new Array();if(window.attachEvent)window.attachEvent("onload",qm_sopen_auto_init);else if(window.addEventListener)window.addEventListener("load",qm_sopen_auto_init,1);};function qm_sopen_auto_init(e,go){if(window.qmv)return;if(!go){setTimeout("qm_sopen_auto_init(null,1)",10);return;}var i;var ql=qmad.sopen_auto.log;for(i=0;i<10;i++){var ss=qmad["qm"+i];if(!ss||!ss.sopen_auto_enabled)continue;var curl=unescape(window.location.href).toLowerCase();curl=qm_sopen_auto_clean(curl);var a;if(a=document.getElementById("qm"+i)){var dd=a.getElementsByTagName("A");for(var j=0;j<dd.length;j++){var aurl=unescape(dd[j].getAttribute("href",1)).toLowerCase();aurl=qm_sopen_auto_clean(aurl);loc=curl.length-aurl.length;if(aurl&&aurl!="#"&&loc>-1&&curl.indexOf(aurl)+1){var wa=dd[j];if(wa.cdiv)wa=wa.cdiv;while(!qm_a(wa)){if(wa.tagName=="DIV"){if(wa.idiv){if(ss.sopen_auto_show_subs)ql.push(wa.idiv);x2("qmpersistent",wa.idiv,1);}}else if(wa.tagName=="A")x2("qmpersistent",wa,1);wa=wa[qp];}}}}}var se=0;var sc=0;if(qmad.tree){se=qmad.tree.etype;sc=qmad.tree.ctype;qmad.tree.etype=0;qmad.tree.ctype=0;}for(i=ql.length-1;i>=0;i--){if(ql[i]){qm_oo(new Object(),ql[i],1);qm_li=null;}}if(qmad.tree){qmad.tree.etype=se;qmad.tree.ctype=sc;}};function qm_sopen_auto_clean(url){url=url.replace(/\:/g,"");url=url.replace("localhost","");url=url.replace("file","");url=url.replace(/\\/g,"");url=url.replace(/\//g,"");url=url.replace(/\./g,"");return url;}

[jscheuer1]

here is the bit of css for the persistent state

<li><a class="qm-startopen qmparent" href="javascript:void(0)">Group Two</a>

That's not css, it's HTML, how is it relevant to the problem? That href would do nothing, except that in some browsers, when clicked it will signal to the browser that it is time to begin unloading the page, which I'm sure is not your intention.

Your javascript code is difficult to read, and probably way more complex than it needs to be.

Write it out using one line for each statement. That will make it clearer to you and anyone reading it what it does. Also, include comments in the code to show what you think it is doing. That will help us to help you, and just thinking about it may resolve the issue for you.

I did notice that the link for examiner is the same on both pages. If your code keys off of the href, it should be different on the different pages.

Generally one uses cookies for persistence.