Showing the current category in a list

Nell · 2006-10-20 21:57:07

I’ve had this problem twice in different sites and I’m still not sure how to solve it.

I want to add a class to my navigation list that highlights the category of the article you are looking at. I could make it work with the category_list tag, but the category list uses messy urls and I’d rather have clean urls, even if I have to type them myself.

I couldn’t make it work with if_category. Is this possible? Am I doing something wrong?

Here’s an example of the way I tried to do it. My article is called services, and it has a category with the same name.

<li><a href="services" <txp:if_category name="services">class="selected"</txp:if_category>>Services</a></li>

I guess I could do this with the article id instead of the categories (i.e., add the class selected if you are in article number 6), is this possible?

Hope I was clear. Thank you!

els · 2006-10-20 22:14:12

<txp:if_category> looks for the category in the URL, so it only works with category lists. You have to use <txp:if_article_category>, but you’ll have to upgrade to 4.0.4 to be able to use that tag outside an article form.

rsilletti · 2006-10-20 22:16:42

If you are highlghting an individual article, if_article_category would be sensitive the article category rather than the article list search category that if_category looks at.

Nell · 2006-10-20 22:21:35

Yes, it’s an individual article.

I tried using if_article_category, but I get a tag context error:

tag_error <txp:if_article_category name="services"> ->  Textpattern Notice: error_article_context  on line 1821

By the way, I also tried it with glx_hl_current, which supposedly highlights individual articles, but I couldn’t make it work.

els · 2006-10-20 22:26:25

Are you using 4.0.4? Because I just tried to use this tag on the page template and it worked. But it is not possible to do this in 4.0.3.

Nell · 2006-10-20 22:31:18

Yes, it’s 4.0.4, it’s a fresh install :)

I’m using it in a form, but I pasted the form content in the page template and I’m still getting the error.

els · 2006-10-20 22:41:48

Ah, I think I found it. See if this works:

<li><a href="services" <txp:if_individual_article><txp:if_article_category name="services">class="selected"</txp:if_article_category></txp:if_individual_article>>Services</a></li>

Nell · 2006-10-20 22:48:23

Wah, I’m still getting the error.

Could it have anything to do with the article tag in the page? I’m using this:

<txp:article form="contenido" limit="1" status="sticky" />

Thank you so much for all your help!

els · 2006-10-20 22:56:19

I swear it’s working for me. Without the if_individual_article tag I get the same error, but as soon as I add it, it starts working.

The only way to find out if it’s the sticky status that’s causing this, is to change the status temporarily and see if it makes a difference…

Nell · 2006-10-20 23:05:01

Guess what, that was it :) the highlighting works perfectly now.
Now I must see if it won’t affect to use live articles instead of stickies.

Thank you for all your help!
Thanks too, rsilletti!

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