[paidaccounts] [all] Adding a Navigation Strip

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Paid Accounts OnlyThe following tutorial requires creating and editing a custom style, which in turn requires a paid, permanent, or early adopter account. Please read What are the paid account benefits? and How do I buy a paid account? to learn about the paid account benefits and how to buy a paid account.

LiveJournal provides the Navigation Strip for easy access to common site features. All system styles automatically support it, however, if you have a custom style, you will need to include the system property for printing the Navigation Strip in your style in order for it to display. This property will need to be added immediately after the tag of the HTML structure.

To do this, you will need to edit your custom style. The tag can be found in the *_PAGE variable; you can add %%control_strip%% where you want the navigation strip to appear. The code generated by %%control_strip%% is self-contained, so you do not need to include extra HTML code to support it.

In this example, it's done directly following the tag of the standard Generator style while editing inside the LASTN_PAGE section:

%%control_strip%%
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You will also need to enable the navigation strip in your Edit Personal Information page before it will appear on your journal.

Contributed by isabeau.