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Re: Returning current article id/active article
Hi there,
what can i do to display the active class, even if i access an article only as a non-individual one?
EXAMPLE
i have content code like this in a section called lala:
<div id=“lala_content”>
<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:article limit=“1” />
<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom id=“2” />
</txp:if_individual_article>
</div>
and in a sidebar navigation i got this to mark the active article:
<txp:rvm_if_this_article><li class=“active_article”><txp:else /><li></txp:rvm_if_this_article>
<i><span class=“entry-title”><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></span></i></li>
This attaches the active class to the navigation entry correctly, as long as i access the article individually.
As soon as i manoever to the section without appending an article url-title in the URL (resulting in displaying the article with ID 2)
no active class for the first article in the navigation (which is ID 2) is displayed.
I get the same result, when instead using server variables.
Thank you very much for any suggestions.
Last edited by jayrope (2011-02-02 07:14:16)
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Re: Returning current article id/active article
The point of article_custom is that it displays a list with no relationship to global article context. That works in both directions; the fact that you are displaying article #2 somewhere on the page using article_custom does not make it “active” in any general sense.
BTW you can use if_article_id instead of rvm_if_this_article, if I am correctly understanding what rvm_if_this_article does.
Is the navigation list based on article_custom?
BTW even though your scenario fits with the existing topic, it’s an old topic and you’re asking a new question pertaining to it — better to open a new topic.
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#27 2011-02-02 20:31:03
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Re: Returning current article id/active article
jayrope wrote:
and in a sidebar navigation i got this to mark the active article:
<txp:rvm_if_this_article><li class="active_article"><txp:else /><li></txp:rvm_if_this_article> <i><span class="entry-title"><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></span></i></li>
What you want can be done, but how to do it depends on the code you are using for the navigation (using article_custom, section_list, something else?). Can you post the entire code of the navigation list?
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