selected sections highlighted in navbar

-P- · 2006-01-01 16:51:32

:D

You Stuart are something!

Frontpage www.domain.com/ (in section frontpage) works ok as well contact (in section contact) with ako_nav when I tested. Besides those I have several other pages that are pulled from articles. I guess I could achieve it making a separate section for each one of the pages but is that very reasonable? Besides that I have site in two languages which use different header and footer so if I have understood the system here correctly, I should have 20 sections?

On other installation I´m also trying to style active link to photo gallery page http://www.domain.com/section/?c=categoryname.

Guess it would be easiest to link those sites here as a demo but they are not yet officially published so…

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thebombsite · 2006-01-01 20:46:13

I’m definitely something but no-one has worked out what yet!

I don’t suppose these individual articles would happen to be in unique categories?

Your other site should work using “if_category” tags.

-P- · 2006-01-01 21:29:44

No, I have only two categories, based on used language. And those ones are merely just for admin content management, there are pages with same title with both languages.

So I guess there is no easy way out, nor even “okay” way styling those active navi tabs? 20 sections and 20 times if_section-tag does not sound very simple solution for one navigation effect. I have to test, if I get it working with categories.

thebombsite · 2006-01-02 18:34:10

So what if you gave them unique categories maybe using category2 for the job then linked to them with a category call?

nardo · 2006-01-02 22:13:59

p – haven’t read your post in detail and no site to look at … but can you add the links dynamically through a form or multiple forms?

if you’re listing articles, you could use an article or article_custom tag calling a form that builds the link … using this form of the permalink tag:
<a href="<txp:permlink />" class="<txp:title />" "><txp:title /></a>

similarly, use this approach in your body tag… then you have a hook for css active styling, e.g.
body#consumables a.consumables {color:red}

(you could use a custom field for this purpose, or any other ‘article’ field)

there may be easier ways of course : )

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-P- · 2006-01-02 22:36:36

Okay… I didn´t quite understand what you mean. I´m using form allready to call header in, and that navigation is in header kinda between other stuff so I could not (or wasn´t skilled enough) to make navigation to be called in from separate form. :)

The one site in question, I did those 20 sections :D, got it working. Gonna test other ways to another site since I get it´s basic structure okay. But over all, this navigation active-tab rule is something that makes me feel just total unskilled idiot!

nardo · 2006-01-02 23:22:39

there are forms, forms and forms : ) what I suggested above is not a txp:output_form thing… but an <txp:article listform="list-article-pages-with-active-links" /> kind of thing

clear as mud?

nardo · 2006-01-02 23:26:48

PS more than one way to skin a cat… you might find this useful

-P- · 2006-01-02 23:32:15

Don´t have a faintest idea what you´re talking about! LOL

Listform?

Thank you nardo for the link, that seems to be more something I understand. Will have an look into that one!

nardo · 2006-01-03 04:14:22

listform… one of the attributes for txp:article tag

altho you’d probably want to use txp:article_custom to list articles (pages) for a nav list

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