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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
