beall-greenhouses/assets/scripts/nav.js

/* Top nav */
const navItems = [
  {
    href: "/about/",
    title: "ⓘ about",
    tooltip: "about the Beall Greenhouses"
  },
  {
    href: "/events/",
    title: "🗓 events",
    tooltip: "events at the Beall Greenhouses"
  },
  {
    href: "/artists/",
    title: "🖌 artists",
    tooltip: "artists in residence at the Beall Greenhouses"
  }
];

const createMenuLink = function(title, href, tooltip) {
  let path = window.location.pathname;

  let a = document.createElement("a");
  a.href = href;
  a.innerHTML = title;
  a.title = tooltip;
  a.ariaLabel = tooltip;
  if (href === "#main") a.id = "skip";
  else if (href === path) a.id = "current-page";

  return a;
}

const createHomeLink = function() {
  let path = window.location.pathname;

  let a = document.createElement("a");
  a.href = "/";
  a.ariaLabel = "Beall Greenhouses home";
  if (path === "/") {
    a.id = "current-page";
    a.title = "Beall Greenhouses home";
  } else {
    a.title = "↩ Beall Greenhouses home"
  }

  let logo = document.createElement("img");
  logo.src = "/assets/img/logo.jpg";
  logo.alt = "block print in black and orange of a rufous hummingbird in flight with tail flared. the hummingbird holds a banner that reads 'become ungovernable.'"

  a.append(logo);

  return a;
}

const createNav = function() {
  let nav = document.createElement("nav");
  nav.title = "background image shows the peak of a dilapidated greenhouse in black and white";

  nav.append(createMenuLink("skip ↷", "#main", "skip to main content"));
  nav.append(createHomeLink());

  let ul = document.createElement("ul");

  for (const item of navItems) {
    let li = document.createElement("li");
    li.append(createMenuLink(item.title, item.href, item.tooltip));
    ul.append(li);
  }

  nav.append(ul);

  return nav;
}

let header = document.querySelector("header");
header.append(createNav());

/* Footer */
const footerHTML = `
  <p>questions?
    <a href="mailto:beall.greenhouses@gmail.com">email us!</a>
  </p>
  <p>brought to you in 2026</p>
`

const populateFooter = function() {
  let footer = document.getElementById("footer");
  footer.innerHTML = footerHTML;
}

populateFooter();