Looks like MENU doesn't generate a DOM structure until its .serialize()
method is called. You could do:
mmenu = mmenu.serialize(mmenu.data)
mmenu.elements('a')
I'm not sure why it was done this way as opposed to generating the DOM upon
initialization. Massimo?
Anthony
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:49:59 AM UTC-4, amphisia pui wrote:
>
> Hi to all
>
> I want to use the html helper MENU to have in the page footer a menu
> totally exploded without sliding items.
> I changed the css classes and everything looks fine but I don't want the
> first level menu items to be clickable
>
> so the first thing I tried was the server-side parsing to remove
> unnecessary tags but in a web2py shell I got
>
> mlist = ... well formatted web2py menu list
>
> In [40]: mmenu = MENU(mlist)
>
> In [41]: mitems = mmenu.elements('a')
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
> /opt/web2py/applications/happy/models/menu.py in <module>()
> ----> 1 mmenu.elements('a')
>
> /opt/web2py/gluon/html.pyc in elements(self, *args, **kargs)
> 1079 # loop the components
>
> 1080 if find_text or find_components:
> -> 1081 for i, c in enumerate(self.components):
> 1082 if check and find_text and isinstance(c, str) and \
> 1083 ((is_regex and find_text.search(c)) or
> (str(find_text) in c)):
>
> AttributeError: 'MENU' object has no attribute 'components'
>
> Is MENU helper supposed to work with sever side DOM parsing? Is web2py
> ipython Shell fault?
> Can you suggest something better to try to have first level items menu
> seem like simple labels?
>
> Thanks to all
>
> AP
>
> Sys info
> Python 2.7.3
> web2py 2.0.8
>
>
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