I would be interested in having this work as well. Was there ever a fix for 
this?

On Sunday, February 16, 2014 12:26:58 PM UTC-5, horridohobbyist wrote:
>
> In the latest version of web2py, this solution no longer works. There's no 
> "web2py-menu-active" class. Is it now standard policy for web2py apps not 
> to have menu selections highlighted?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Monday, 17 October 2011 15:00:38 UTC-4, Paolo Caruccio wrote:
>>
>> If you're using respone.menu to build your menu and in line with 
>> http://www.web2py.com/book/default/search?search=response.menu
>> you could replace the second item (the boolean value)in the tuple with 
>> the check (request.function=='index') where index is your active page.
>> In this way web2py automatically add to li tag (your menu tab) the 
>> class="web2py-menu-active". So in .css file you can customize it.
>>
>> For example (I'm using default w2p application "welcome"):
>>
>> ### in menu.py (welcome app models folder) ###
>>
>> response.menu = [
>>     (T('Home'), False, URL('default','index'), [])
>>     ]
>>
>> becomes
>>
>> response.menu = [
>>     (T('Home'), (request.function=='index'), URL('default','index'), [])
>>     ]
>>
>> ### in layout.html (welcome app views folder ###
>>
>> change this
>>
>> {{=MENU(response.menu,_class='sf-menu')}}
>>
>> to 
>>
>> {{=MENU(response.menu,_class='sf-menu',li_active="tab_highlighted")}}
>>
>> li_active allows to change default class "web2py-menu-active" to your 
>> preference. In the above example "tab_highlighted".
>>
>> ### in base.css (welcome app static/css subfolder) 
>>
>> append the css rule
>>
>> .web2py-menu-active a, .tab_highlighted a{color:red}
>>
>> Ciao.
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>

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