Sorry, I tried it, but it didn't work. Richard
On Oct 17, 3:00 pm, Paolo Caruccio <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're using respone.menu to build your menu and in line > withhttp://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
