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Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
I have a menu in the sidebar displaying all articles in a section called Features. When someone is viewing an individual article I want that article title in the sidebar menu to have a class=“active”
What would be the best way to achieve this?
Art Rogue – Fine Art Photography
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
I think this will do the work:
class="<txp:if_article_id id='<txp:article_id />'>active</txp:if_article_id>"
Last edited by THE BLUE DRAGON (2010-04-26 17:51:51)
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#3 2010-04-26 17:54:46
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
The if_article_id tag only works inside if_individual_article tags, see also this TXP Tip.
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
So if my menu is present on a Section front or category page I need to use a plugin like rvm_if_this_article?
Art Rogue – Fine Art Photography
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
Els wrote:
The if_article_id tag only works inside if_individual_article tags
Are you sure about that? it’s says nothing about that in the Textbook page
and sorry there is no need for the <txp:article_id /> tag because it’s the default cool ;)
class="<txp:if_individual_article><txp:if_article_id>active</txp:if_article_id></txp:if_individual_article>"mattmikulla wrote:
So if my menu is present on a Section front or category page I need to use a plugin like rvm_if_this_article?
Good question because it’s not individual so the code I just post will not show anything
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#6 2010-04-26 19:47:38
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
mattmikulla wrote:
So if my menu is present on a Section front or category page I need to use a plugin like rvm_if_this_article?
THE BLUE DRAGON wrote:
Good question because it’s not individual so the code I just post will not show anything
+1
Els?
No, you don’t need the plugin. In article list context you don’t want the code to show anything, do you? ;)
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
He’s talking about that when you first enter to a section (page) (with or without a category),
that has for example <txp:article limit=“1”> on the left side,
and on the right side there is a list of other articles using <txp:article_custom />.
so then on the left side it will show you only the latest article (because of the limit-1),
but because it’s not individual-article-page you can’t highlight the current article in the list on the right side.
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
Yea. Not working when I use txp:article_custom.
When it’s not on an individual article there should be no class assigned.
Last edited by mattmikulla (2010-04-26 21:52:46)
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#9 2010-04-27 00:29:00
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
mattmikulla wrote:
When it’s not on an individual article there should be no class assigned.
I don’t quite get this because that’s about the opposite of what Gil says?
He’s talking about that when you first enter to a section (page) (with or without a category),
that has for example <txp:article limit=“1”> on the left side,
and on the right side there is a list of other articles using <txp:article_custom />.
so then on the left side it will show you only the latest article (because of the limit-1),
but because it’s not individual-article-page you can’t highlight the current article in the list on the right side.
If I’m not mistaken that is exactly what Joop’s code on TXP Tips does…
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Re: Assign active class to link in menu list if currently viewing article
Els wrote:
I don’t quite get this because that’s about the opposite of what Gil says?
Yes Els it’s look like it’s the opposite of what I understand from he’s post, sorry.
then if you Matt don’t want it to assign a class if it’s not individual, just do not use the <txp:else /> part on that txptip code.
If I’m not mistaken that is exactly what Joop’s code on TXP Tips does…
Yea yea stupid me lol!
I for some reason totally ignored the <txp:else /> part,
that do exactly what I want!
thanks for bringing me back into focus lol ;)
But now I’m having an other problem, that the ‘else’ part only works with <txp:article_custom />
but not with the rss_suparchive plugin that allow paging, not like article-custom that don’t.
so I will just not use the ‘else’ part :/ (I must have paging for my side article-list)
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