"Current" Navigation

[morenov]

Hi. This problem is problem already solved somewhere on this board but i couldn't find anything (mainly because i didn't know what to search for), so maybe someone can give me a hint.

I have a horizontal Navigation with 2 levels and a bilingual website; so i managed it the following way

i call the "Main Navigation" with show_menu(1, 1, 1)
and the sub-menu with show_menu(2,2)

Now the problem is, if i click on an element of the main menu, everything works fine and he applies the "menu_current" class to it, but as soon as i push one of the sub-elements of that first level menu, the "current"-class disappears. I would want it to stay "pushed" as long as the user is in the submenu-pages of that element.

I hope i could make it clear somehow and i appreciate any help.
Can give further explanations if needed. thanks in advance

Bye

Moreno





EDIT: I just read through this and maybe it's a bit complicated, i'll try and explain

The menu structure is the following

en (English)

• Parent 1
  • Child 1.1
  • Child 1.2
  • Child 1.3
  • Child 1.4
• Parent 2
  • Child 2.1
  • Child 2.2
  • Child 2.3
  • Child 2.4

de (German - same structure as in English)

• ...

Now if i click on Parent 1 (for example), that parent get's the "menu_current" class, and it displays the childs correctly. But as soon as i click on one of the Childs from Parent 1 (for example 1.2), i DO get the corresponding 1.2 page, but the Parent 1 is not "menu_curren" anymore.

Is there a workaround for this? thanks

[applepie]

Like to help but cant understand your question. Can you post the link?

[morenov]

there is no link atm

I thought my explanation would help anyway, i'll try again.

basically the problem is that if i switch between different childs of one parent, that parent looses the "menu_current" attribute.

Let's suppose i have the architecture of my first post, and i click on link 1.2 (a child) or 1.3 or whatever child below parent "1", i want to have the link to parent "1" to be "menu_current"-class.

I'm using this menu, and i want that if i click on one of the tabs, and choose a sub-link from the parent, that the parent stays dark-blue.

I hope that i can upload my project soon, but maybe it got clearer this time.

[BlackTiger]

Perhaps using show_menu2 instead of show_menu can solve your problems?

regards
Michael

[morenov]

Thanks for the hint so far. i believe the solution could in fact be with the show_menu2 function. I just haven't got it to work properly. in case someone has in mind a template using show_menu2 similar to the the menu i'm using, i'd be glad for a link. otherwise i'll just keep trying. Thanks so far

[erpe]

Hi

it is the natural of a menu-link, that it is not current, when a child is current. 
There could be only one link "current".
But the parent is then menu-parent. So if you want it to be blue, format the men-parent and menu-current with the same color.

Have a look at the html-output to see, what classes you have to format.

rgds

erpe

[morenov]

works flawlessly, thank you guys so much! Big thumbs up for the good support here