On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:55 AM, bradford <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Thanks Derek.  I'll give this a shot when I get home. I don't quite
> understand the purpose of Menu.item, then.  Isn't Menu.item what you
> all use to create links so that they aren't hard coded in all of the
> pages?
>

Yes.


>
> What's the best practice:
>
> For more information about <lift:Menu.item name="foo1" />.  For more
> information about <lift:Menu.item name="foo2" />.
>
> Or
>
> For more information about <a href="/foo1">foo1</a>.  For more
> information about <a href="/foo2">foo2</a>.
>

The latter.  This allows you to move the pages around on the filesystem
without having to grep through all you source files looking for what needs
to be changed.


>
> Or something else?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On Mar 23, 9:43 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That's actually the correct behavior as it's currently written for the
> > Menu.item. For the Menu.group, you can provide your own template for each
> > menu item that's rendered:
> >
> > <ul class="menu">
> >   <lift:Menu.group group="foo">
> >     <li><menu:bind /></li>
> >   </lift:Menu.group>
> > </ul>
> >
> > I could see adding an "always" attribute to the Menu.item snippet such
> that
> > when it's defined the Menu item is always rendered.
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM, bradford <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Also, I'm using 1.1-snapshot and <lift:Menu.item name="foo1" /> will
> > > always show except when i am on /foo1.  For this case it doesn't even
> > > render.
> >
> > > On Mar 23, 8:41 pm, bradford <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > The idea of LocGroup is great.  I have a few Menu's with LocGroup
> > > > ("group1").  I want to generate:
> >
> > > > <ul class="menu">
> > > > <li><a href="/foo1"><span>Foo1</span></foo>
> > > > <li><a href="/foo1"><span>Foo1</span></foo>
> > > > <li><a href="/foo1"><span>Foo1</span></foo>
> > > > </ul>
> >
> > > > for just group1.
> >
> > > > It appears that <lift:Menu.group /> does not print ul and li, and
> > > > lift:Menu.builder won't recognize group.  What are my alternatives?
> > > > Also, I need to surround the item text with <span />.
>
> >
>


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