Menu Manager top level individual classes

[new2thiscms]

Hi everyone,

I have the latest version of CMSMS installed and am trying to adapt the menu manager to work with a design that has a requirement for each top level link to have its own class. I adjusted the template to only use the li tag and none of the the other associated class. I also found a cycle values tag which kind of worked but instead of listing them in the exact order it did the first two classes followed by a random 2 others and so on. This made me think that maybe the cycle values is meant for only 2 items.

Does anyone know a way to assign specific classes to the top level of a drop down menu. I have been searching the forums for a couple hours now and I appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Chris

[jack4ya]

I had a similar thing. My solution, though not nice, does work.
But I had 4 groups and no more, so I could hardcode it a bit.

Make multiple menu template and give each toplevel it's own class.

(dirty code but I think you understand)
{menu template=a start_element=1}
{menu template=b start_element=2}
{menu template=c start_element=3}
{menu template=d start_element=4}
Downside is you need to make multiple templates

With layouts attached to menu groups:
Split you pages in groups. Each group will represent a menu(group)
Now code it "read" to friendly position of a particulair page.
So page 2.1 will have a parent "2"
With this number, when assigned, you put it in the template and then call it with css.
Some code to illustrate:

in a page/template:
{assign var='styleposition' value=$friendly_position|truncate:1:''}
So the styleposition is: {$styleposition}
(on page 2.3.x whatever the output wil be "2")

so a code like



Can now be used with the {$styleposition} :




It might not be exactly what you wany/need, but it might give you a starting point

*) disclaimer: I'm not a programmer, there are most likely better ways?

[Peciura]

Ajust menu template according your needs:

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class="menu_class_{$node->hierarchy|truncate:1:""}"

[jack4ya]

See! It can be quicker and (c)leaner! 
At least i was on course with the last bit. 

Valuable lesson today for me.

[calguy1000]

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class="menu_depth_{$node->depth}"  

different class for each level, no problems.

want each node to have it's own class:

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class="menu_{$node->alias}"

want each node to have it's own class, but only on the top level...

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{if $node->depth == 1}class="menu_{$node->alias}" {/if}

it really is that simple.  it just takes some time investment to learn and understand smarty, and to learn how to use the variables and data that is at your fingertips.

[new2thiscms]

Thank you very much for the help this solved the problem.