By jesusrocksmyfaceoff on

Greetings, I wanted to start out by saying the Drupal community has been so very helpful to me so far, and I greatly appreciate it.

Okay, so at http://www.newcreationwoc.org/v2 the primary nav has that red "line" image on it for any "active" url/link. What I'm wondering, is how do I get that line to stay, when after clicking on, Get Connected, for example, and then clicking on something in the secondary links, technically the primary nav is no longer active, but i'd like the red line to stay even when a child link is clicked.

I have the source for primary and secondary links both set as primary links in the settings, and the menu itself setup accordingly. I think this is a probably an easy coding or CSS thing, but I haven't been able to locate appropriate documentation thus far, and my brain is almost mush from trying to figure it out.

Any and all help, again, is very appreciated.

Thank You
Josh

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ludo1960 commented

use the menutrails module, that should do the trick!

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jesusrocksmyfaceoff commented

Except that it isn't working. And there aren't many suggestions, even in the issues queue for this sort of thing. There are no errors - the behavior is the same as before...

I assume what its supposed to do is essentially keep the top level primary navigation in an "active" status even when the child link is the one thats truly active... which again, in a module would be very slick, but it doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?

There is talk of a code snippet needing to be added to template.php - but, I do not see that snippet included with the module - is it now automatically added?

There is also talk, in the issues queue, about CSS needing to be fixed. and something like:

li.active-trail a, li a.active 
{ 
color: red;
}

is required.

The only problem is that I'm not sure exactly how I would "customize" that - what part of my CSS I would associate that with, because all on its own, it doesn't do anything, so I'm guessing it needs to be added to one of my other CSS ids or classes, but I'm not quite sure which one.

The css code to get the line to appear on the top level looks like this in my style.css:

#navlist a.active {
padding: 0 0 0.3em 0;
background: url('images/active_link.gif') repeat center bottom;
}

Would I do something like this:

#navlist a.active, navlist.active-trail a {
padding: 0 0 0.3em 0;
background: url('images/active_link.gif') repeat center bottom;
}

Or would it go somewhere else? I don't want to play around too much if I'm not headed in the right direction at least....

Josh Mans
New Creation WOC
www.newcreationwoc.org