I've never been a great lover of Xara's navbars. Firstly they create two images for each button that rendered as bitmaps and are blurry. So a smallish menu can create quite a few image files that the server has to request slowing down the page load.

I prefer to create my own navbars especially as the latest Xara apps can create svg versions thus by-passing the need to download fuzzy bitmaps and speed up the sites rendering.

In a recent thread SueB asked about "I never did get how to make the hamburger navigation properly"...

I created an alternative using only Xara which I liked a lot as it gave me design control. There was two ways to implement this navbar:

1: Repeat the navbar layers on every page. Could become tiresome, repeat on every page etc.
2: Load the navbar menu within each page via an iframe call to load 'menu.htm'.

I prefer the ifame route.

However I'm finding that the menu.htm page is causing problems. I can Ctrl+F5 which refreshes the page containing the menu.htm iframe but does not refresh the actual menu.htm within the page.

How can I ensure the menu.htm file is updated each time it's called? It's a very tiny page.



LINK to my site with a iframe menu.