//used to set the body id for the html page based on the url which sets the top image of the page. eg: http://www2.law.umaryland.edu/students has body id="students".
$(document).ready(function() {
var the_url =location.href;
var first_split = the_url.split("//");
var without_resource = first_split[1];
var second_split = without_resource.split("/");
document.body.id=second_split[1]
});