David, you're right that needing to surround the element text of a
with span is a unique case and should be a custom snippet. I've
removed the span now and think that Derek's addition of "always" would
be just what I need. Adding group="foo" to Menu.builder would suffice
as well.
Thanks for the tips, Chas.
Derek, if you do add "always" can you please let me know so that I can
update my code.
Thanks,
Bradford
On Mar 24, 10:37 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The general case is that a page won't link to itself, I think, which is why
> the default isn't to show it when the page matches. Unless anyone has
> objections I can add an "always" attribute. As for #1, the Menu.item makes a
> link using whatever the contents of the Menu.item tag are for the link text:
>
> <lift:Menu.item name="foo"><span>Go here</span></lift:Menu.item>
>
> should become
>
> <a href={foo location}><span>Go here</span></a>
>
> Am I misunderstanding what you're looking for there? As for #2, you should
> be able to add a class using the prefixed attribute:
>
> <lift:Menu.builder li_item:class="bar" />
>
> In this context, li_item is the menu item that matches the current page.
> With Menu.group, you can specify the binding template:
>
> <ul>
> <lift:Menu.group group="help">
> <li class="bar"><menu:bind /></li>
> </lift:Menu.group>
> </ul>
>
> But there's no provision to do anything special for the current page.
>
> Let me know if that's not sufficient or if I'm misunderstanding your
> requirement.
>
> Derek
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, bradford <fingerm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the clarification, David, and for your snippet, Derek.
>
> > I think adding an "always" attribute to Menu.item would be very
> > beneficial. I still don't understand why that's not its default
> > behavior.
>
> > It looks like I will not be able to use any of lift's Menu tags at
> > this time, because 1) I need to surround the item text with span and
> > 2) I need a way to add class="active" to the li_item. Both are not
> > possible with Menu.item, Menu.group, or Menu.builder. Let me know if
> > I am mistaken. If I am not not, may I put in a feature request for
> > these items. For the time being I will just hard code it as follows
> > (which is not a big deal to me at this time):
>
> > <ul class="menu">
> > <li><a href="/foo1" class="active"><span>Foo1</span></foo>
> > <li><a href="/foo2"><span>Foo2</span></foo>
> > <li><a href="/foo3"><span>Foo3</span></foo>
> > </ul>
>
> > Thanks again for the great support :)
>
> > Bradford
>
> > On Mar 24, 12:08 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > David Pollak wrote:
> > > > > What's the best practice:
>
> > > > > For more information about <lift:Menu.item name="foo1" />. For
> > more
> > > > > information about <lift:Menu.item name="foo2" />.
>
> > > > > Or
>
> > > > > For more information about <a href="/foo1">foo1</a>. For more
> > > > > information about <a href="/foo2">foo2</a>.
>
> > > > > The latter. This allows you to move the pages around on the
> > filesystem
> > > > > without having to grep through all you source files looking for what
> > > > > needs to be changed.
>
> > > > Am I missing something, or did you mean the former?
>
> > > D'oh! That brain-finger connection is always getting messed up. I meant
> > > the former. Thanks for correcting me!
>
> > > > Chas.
>
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