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#1 2006-09-03 08:12:02

lee
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From: Normandy, France
Registered: 2004-06-17
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related articles active class

Any chance of an active class attribute for <code><txp:related_articles /></code> please. As this tag can be use to produce an article nav list it would be very useful.

Cheers, Lee

edit – be nice to have this for recent artles as well.

Last edited by lee (2006-09-03 08:30:45)

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#2 2006-09-04 04:09:40

Mary
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Re: related articles active class

As far a related_articles go, you should never have the same article appearing in the list as the one being viewed. I think this is what happens in 4.0.3, but has been fixed in svn.

For recent_articles, Textpattern couldn’t know what article you’re looking at, because you typically don’t use it in a article form, but in a page. While you could work around this with conditional tag trickery, that seems like it would just be confusing?

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#3 2006-09-04 07:18:49

lee
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Re: related articles active class

As far a related_articles go, you should never have the same article appearing in the list as the one being viewed. I think this is what happens in 4.0.3, but has been fixed in svn.

You’re right in 4.04 that’s how it works, but having navagational menu items dissapear from a nav list when they are clicked seem contary to what I think most people would expect. Most nav’s I’ve ever seen highlight the current navagational menu selection. But I can see the reasoning in the way it works now, articles aren’t related to themselves so shouldn’t be in the list.

I guess what I’m after is a simple, built in, way to mark as active the current article from a list of articles in a given section.

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#4 2006-09-05 00:10:02

Mary
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Re: related articles active class

It’s not meant to be used as a navigation menu, hence it’s expected output it different. It sounds like what you actually want to use is article_custom.

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