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 >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

