Is it possible to highlight main menu items from a submenu?

[4viggo]

I would like to highlight the top menu (and the path all the way down) from accessing a page deep down in my submenu?

The "Current Page Item Font Color" and "background color" settings work fine for the menu items having no submenus but when accessing a page in a submenu it does not highlight the parrent top menu item.

Help!

[Andy]

There is a download at http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/madtoaste ... 3.5.02.zip that will do what you want.

Although not fully supported by Milonic this will appear as standard in version 4 later next year.

Regards
Andy

[4viggo]

Thanks Andy

regards
4viggo

[Stan]

Hi:

I would like very much to reproduce this behaviour. Please tell me what is special about this menu_array.js file and produces this behaviour?

Stan

[kevin3442]

Hi Stan,

Hope you don't mind me jumping in. The changes do not affect the menu array file (your current menu_array.js will be just fine). The "mad toaster" functionality is produced by additional code in mmenu.js, added by another user. The download Andy provided will include a different mmenu.js file that you can try using. Note, however, that it is version 3.5.02, so it will not have the latest small changes from 3.5.03 - 3.5.12 (you can see the list of additions here).

Hope that helps,

Kevin

[Stan]

Thanks for your reply Kevin,

I got it working fine now, except if I use a "swapimage" setting on a sub menu item (which I guess was the cause of my problem). Any fix or workaround would be greatly appreciated!

Stan

[kevin3442]

Stan,

What exactly happens (or doesn't) when you use a swapimage? Menu highlighting stops working? Can you provide a URL to the site in question?

Kevin

[Stan]

Kevin,

Sorry, this is not yet on air. I will try to upload as soon as possible, perhaps later this week.

In a simple two-level menu structure, if I use an entry like the following in a sub-menu:

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,"<img src=menu315x15.jpg border=0>&nbsp;La fábrica de sueños","LaMatatena-470.htm",,"La fábrica de sueños",1

everything goes well, and the sub-menu of the page is highlighted in the main menu whenever the page is displayed.

In contrast, if I use the following entry:

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,"<img src=menu315x15.jpg border=0>&nbsp;La fábrica de sueños","LaMatatena-470.htm swapimage=MatatenaRoja15.gif",,"La fábrica de sueños",1

the sub-menu of the current page is not highligthed in the main menu (but the whole menu is otherwise behaving correctly, including the image swapping).

Stan

[Stan]

Hi Kevin:

You can reproduce the problem simply by replacing the following entry in the menu_array.js file provided by madtoaster:

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addmenu(menu=["m_company",,,120,1,"",style2,,"left",effect,,,,,,,,,,,,
,"    Form","main_2_1.htm",,"Form",1
])

with this one:

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addmenu(menu=["m_company",,,120,1,"",style2,,"left",effect,,,,,,,,,,,,
,"<img src=arrow.gif>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Form","main_2_1.htm swapimage=arrowdn.gif",,"Form",1
])

Stan

P.S. The script seems to ignore that the url may be followed by alternate actions...

[reds]

Hi,
question :
is it possible to use the highlight current item when not all pages are set in thye root, but in separate folders ?

help would be greatly appreciated !!

Björn

[Stan]

Hi,
question :
is it possible to use the highlight current item when not all pages are set in thye root, but in separate folders ?

help would be greatly appreciated !!

Björn

I am not sure that I use the best technique, but I use a different menu_array.js in each folder... somewhat cumbersome, but it works.

Stan

[reds]

When you give your full path in the menu_array.js, you're able to use one menu_array.js

[Stan]

Thanks Reds, this works fine.

Stan

[Stan]

It seems that if a page is loaded at a specific anchor (page.htm#anchor), then the current page is not highlighted in the menu (in my case, the anchor is not specified in the menu, but in a link from another page). Anyone experienced the same behaviour?

Stan

[Stan]

Stan,

What exactly happens (or doesn't) when you use a swapimage? Menu highlighting stops working? Can you provide a URL to the site in question?

Kevin

Kevin,

Here is the url: http://www.lamatatena.org/

You will notice that the second-level menu items do not have any swapimage, because when I specify one they stop highlighting the main menu.

Stan

[Romeo]

Do you know if anyone has added the "mad_toaster" addition to the later versions of the mmenu.js file or is it a wait for version 4?

[astoorian]

There is a download at http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/madtoaste ... 3.5.02.zip that will do what you want.

Although not fully supported by Milonic this will appear as standard in version 4 later next year.

Regards
Andy

I've tried using the madtoaster file but no joy. The problem is with any page located in a subdirectory of the root directory, I get no highlighting of either the submenu or top menu items for these pages.

The only semi-weird thing I think I'm doing is that I'm using 2 menu_array files -- the only difference between the 2 is the path names used for the images and urls. Because my server doesn't seem to support root-relative links (e.g. /img/image.gif) I'm using relative links (e.g. img/image.gif), so the menu_array file loaded for pages in the root directory has links like "img/image.gif", while pages in a subdirectory use a menu_array_1 file that specify "../img/image.gif"

Hope the preceeding makes sense. Any help would be appreciated. There is a test server at home.cogeco.ca/~gastoorian/home.htm. (note that below the top level of menus only the "submenu test" items actually point anywhere).

[Stan]

Astoorian,

You seem to execute a version of mmenu.js (in your lib/java) that does not contain the madtoaster additions? I get a page not found on the other mmenu.js specified in your page.

Stan

P.S. I got this to work but only with root relative url's.

[astoorian]

Stan,

Thanks for having a look. The mmenu.js there now does have the extensions, but maybe when you hit it I hadn't updoaded the new file yet. I fixed the other thing you mentioned as well, but still no highlight colour on subdirectory pages.

Gregg

[Stan]

Gregg,

Check this entry: http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/forum/vie ... light+path

Stan