Index: nice_menus.module
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/modules/nice_menus/nice_menus.module,v
retrieving revision 1.16.2.15
diff -u -r1.16.2.15 nice_menus.module
--- nice_menus.module	20 Dec 2007 14:16:09 -0000	1.16.2.15
+++ nice_menus.module	9 Feb 2008 22:51:41 -0000
@@ -206,17 +206,21 @@
 
   $output['subject'] = $menu['items'][$pid]['title'];
 
+  $trail = _menu_get_active_trail();
+
   if ($menu['visible'][$pid]['children']) {
     // Build class name based on menu path 
     // e.g. to give each menu item individual style.
     foreach ($menu['visible'][$pid]['children'] as $mid) {  
+      $is_active = array_search($mid,$trail); 
       // Strip funny symbols
       $clean_path = str_replace(array('http://', '<', '>', '&', '=', '?', ':'), '', $menu['items'][$mid]['path']);
       // Convert slashes to dashes
       $clean_path = str_replace('/', '-', $clean_path);
       $path_class = 'menu-path-'. $clean_path;
       if (count($menu['visible'][$mid]['children']) > 0) {
-        $output['content'] .= '<li id="menu-'. $mid .'" class="menuparent '. $path_class .'">'. menu_item_link($mid);
+        ($is_active) ? $state= " expanded ": $state="";
+        $output['content'] .= '<li id="menu-'. $mid .'" class="menuparent '. $state . $path_class .'">'. menu_item_link($mid);
         $output['content'] .= '<ul><!--[if lt IE 7]><iframe src="javascript:false;"></iframe><![endif]-->';
         $tmp = theme('nice_menu_tree', $mid);
         $output['content'] .= $tmp['content'];