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#1 2008-02-21 17:04:48

sparksmemphis
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From: Memphis TN
Registered: 2008-01-23
Posts: 10
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CSS in an Article? Menu problem...

My menu is inside my page template so it applies to all articles, obviously.
my site is 5 static pages.

what i need.. is above the fold every page looks the same.
so i need the menu button that is associated with each article acting as a static “page” to have an active state. i obviously cant apply active states to the css bc itll just do it to all of them. theres only one page/template in textpattern.

so if anybody knows a work around for this sort of problem let me know.. i cant wrap my head around it.

my menu has a down state and an over state. thats it. so when you’re on the contact article i want the contact menu button to be on the over state. but since the contact article is fed into the same page used for every article.. i dont know how to do this. i thought about putting css into the actual article but i dont think you can and that doesnt make much sense.

if somebody can help let me know.

here’s the site:

www.universalfairs.com

Last edited by sparksmemphis (2008-02-21 17:06:57)


www.digitalskraps.com

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#2 2008-02-22 01:04:26

simsim
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Registered: 2006-05-06
Posts: 70

Re: CSS in an Article? Menu problem...

Make a different category name for every menu item, then you could attach the category’s name to the body element as in ID and target every article’s page in the CSS.

<body id="<txp:category />">

And in the CSS you could have:

#category1 ul li a {
	blah: blah;
	blah: blah;
}
#category1 ul li a:hover {
	blah: blah;
}
#category2 ul li a {
	blah: blah;
	blah: blah;
}
#category2 ul li a:hover {
	blah;
}

And so on..

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#3 2008-02-22 01:42:57

iblastoff
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From: Toronto
Registered: 2006-06-11
Posts: 1,197
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Re: CSS in an Article? Menu problem...

so your menu links directly to articles named home, about us, our fairs, etc etc? they’re not sections? a bit odd but i guess it works.

if you used sections you could have used txp:if_section. if they’re linking directly to articles, then you can use txp:if_article_id

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#4 2008-02-22 02:57:09

simsim
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Registered: 2006-05-06
Posts: 70

Re: CSS in an Article? Menu problem...

Sections would work, but he should change the permanent link mode to “/title” in the preferences tab in order to keep his current URL scheme intact.

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