Sean,
Thats good information. Since I will be having mostly static menu items I'm
thinking that <r:navigation> might work better. However, I don't really
know how to implement it for pages that don't have a parent/child
relationship. All the samples seem to focus on dynamic menus built on
multiple levels of related pages. Or maybe I'm looking at them wrong... Do
you have any hints/tips on using it?
Anyway, my major focus is going to be simplicity and efficiency. I don't
want to put up a huge boatload of processor intensive code just to build a
menu. :/
Later...
Richard
On 9/25/07, Sean Cribbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I used to recommend the <r:navigation> tag, but nowadays, I'm thinking
> body-ids combined with some dynamic CSS might work best. I might do
> something like this in the layout:
>
> <body id="page_<r:id />">
>
> Then in a separate (Radiant-stored) stylesheet, I would do something like
> this:
>
> <r:find url="/">
> <r:snippet name="page_menu_highlight" />
> </r:find>
>
> Then in the snippet named "page_menu_highlight":
>
> #page_<r:id/> #link_to_<r:id/> { font-weight: bold; } // or whatever
> you want to use to highlight.
> <r:children:each>
> <r:snippet name="page_menu_highlight" />
> </r:children:each>
>
> Then when generating your menu items, set the id on each item to
> #link_to_<r:id/>.
>
> If you have pretty much static menu options, <r:navigation/> is
> arguably better, however.
>
> Sean
>
> On 9/25/07, Richard Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've got my Radiant shell up and running and I'm trying to figure things
> > out. One thing I've run across is building a menu and highlighting the
> > current page. Here's what I have right now. It works but it's really
> > really messy. I guess I could put it into a snippet or something but it
> > still seems like the hard way to do it. I looked at the <r:navigation>
> > stuff but I think that just works with children pages, correct?
> >
> > <div id="menu">
> > <ul>
> > <r:if_url matches="^/$"><li id="current"><a
> > href="/">Home</a></li></r:if_url>
> > <r:unless_url matches="^/$"><li><a href="/">Home</li></r:unless_url>
> >
> > <r:if_url matches="^/products"><li id="current"><a
> > href="/products">Products</a></li></r:if_url>
> > <r:unless_url matches="^/products"><li><a
> > href="/products">Products</li></r:unless_url>
> >
> > ... etc ...
> >
> > </ul>
> > </div>
> >
> >
> > Basically, I'm trying to single out the current page so that I can apply
> a
> > CSS id to it. That id causes the menu item to be bold and give you the
> > feeling that your really on the page.
> >
> > I know it's probably something really stupid, but instead of messing
> with it
> > for 3 days I thought I would ask you guys for some help.
> >
> > Thanx!
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > BTW: The page I'm working on is at http://mail.kangaroobox.com:3000/
> . Don't
> > abuse me too much. :)
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