[solved] Separate navigations

[SusanN]

I just learned that by using this menu tag {menu items=""} it allows you to have separate navigations.

My website will have 3 basic navigations.  e cba bbe rt.com/cms  They are the top, main dropdown, and footer navigations.  My question is this....is it acceptable to only use {menu items=""} to declare the top and footer navigation pages and then hope the rest of the pages will just naturally go to the main dropdown?  Because the main dropdown will easily have 300+ pages.  I can't imagine typing in allll those page names for the main dropdown.

[cyberman]

Hi Susan,

items param is only good for a small amount of entries. A better solution would be this:

Create the following content structure

1. top (content type = section header)
1.1 subpage (content type = content)
1.2 subpage (content type = content)
...

2. main dropdown (content type = section header)
2.1 subpage (content type = content)
2.2 subpage (content type = content)
...

3. footer (content type = section header)
3.1 subpage (content type = content)
3.2 subpage (content type = content)
...

Then you can call every menu tree separately with

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{menu start_level='2' start_element='1.1' show_root_siblings='1'}
{menu start_level='2' start_element='2.1' show_root_siblings='1'}
{menu start_level='2' start_element='3.1' show_root_siblings='1'}

[SusanN]

Thanks for your reply.  I am unfamiliar with using the section header feature...  It looks to me like when you create a section header, it becomes only a link in the navigation and not a full page.  Am I correct?  Because that won't work.  I need the full page to be on the top level.  I don't want the top level links to just lead to more navigation.  Does that make sense?

[cyberman]

With {menu start_level='2'} your menu shouldn't begin with section header - it's only for a better overview.

Btw. yes - a Section Header is not a full page ...

[SusanN]

Okay, thanks for your help!

[Pierre M.]

@SusanN : please put [solved] in the title of your first post.