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Taken From The Forum: Archived Topics for the old Version 3.0 JavaScript Menu
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:42
Is it possible to highlight main menu items from a submenu?
Poster: 4viggo
Dated: Saturday September 28 2002 - 9:39:18 BST
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!
Poster: Andy
Dated: Saturday September 28 2002 - 9:47:32 BST
There is a download at http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/madtoaster_menu_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
What do I need to do?
Poster: Stan
Dated: Tuesday March 4 2003 - 3:06:30 GMT
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
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Tuesday March 4 2003 - 5:15:05 GMT
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
One little glitch...
Poster: Stan
Dated: Tuesday March 4 2003 - 5:22:48 GMT
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
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Tuesday March 4 2003 - 18:02:02 GMT
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
Poster: Stan
Dated: Tuesday March 4 2003 - 19:58:31 GMT
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:
Code:
,"<img src=menu315x15.jpg border=0> 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:
Code:
,"<img src=menu315x15.jpg border=0> 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
Poster: Stan
Dated: Tuesday March 11 2003 - 14:34:52 GMT
Hi Kevin:
You can reproduce the problem simply by replacing the following entry in the menu_array.js file provided by madtoaster:
Code:
addmenu(menu=["m_company",,,120,1,"",style2,,"left",effect,,,,,,,,,,,,
," Form","main_2_1.htm",,"Form",1
])
," Form","main_2_1.htm",,"Form",1
])
with this one:
Code:
addmenu(menu=["m_company",,,120,1,"",style2,,"left",effect,,,,,,,,,,,,
,"<img src=arrow.gif> Form","main_2_1.htm swapimage=arrowdn.gif",,"Form",1
])
,"<img src=arrow.gif> 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...
Poster: reds
Dated: Wednesday March 12 2003 - 15:50:37 GMT
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
Poster: Stan
Dated: Wednesday March 12 2003 - 17:56:01 GMT
reds wrote:
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
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
Poster: reds
Dated: Thursday March 13 2003 - 13:19:37 GMT
When you give your full path in the menu_array.js, you're able to use one menu_array.js
Current page not highlighted when loaded at an anchor
Poster: Stan
Dated: Friday March 14 2003 - 5:52:29 GMT
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
Poster: Stan
Dated: Saturday March 15 2003 - 21:58:49 GMT
kevin3442 wrote:
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
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
Doing an update ?
Poster: Romeo
Dated: Wednesday March 19 2003 - 16:32:38 GMT
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?
Poster: astoorian
Dated: Friday April 11 2003 - 20:12:35 BST
Andy wrote:
There is a download at http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/madtoaster_menu_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
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).
Poster: Stan
Dated: Friday April 11 2003 - 21:37:26 BST
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.
Poster: astoorian
Dated: Friday April 11 2003 - 23:06:11 BST
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
Poster: Stan
Dated: Saturday April 12 2003 - 16:48:09 BST
Gregg,
Check this entry: http://www.milonic.co.uk/menu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1667&highlight=highlight+path
Stan