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rbaby wrote:I'm doing an accordion-style menu but the format requires the main to have an ID, and the sub-items have the same ID to make the association.

Jo Morg wrote:

rbaby wrote:I'm doing an accordion-style menu but the format requires the main to have an ID, and the sub-items have the same ID to make the association.

An id should be unique within a page, so the id selector is used if you want to select a single, unique element. It's better to use the class which is much more flexible. You can even have multiple classes for the same element...

rbaby wrote:

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<ul>
<li id="ID">Main Navigation
     <ul id="ID">
          <li>Sub-Item</li>
     </ul>
</li>
<li id="ID2">Main Navigation
     <ul id="ID2">
          <li>Sub-Item</li>
     </ul>
</li>
</ul>

rbaby wrote:Thank you Jo Morg but the idea is that it should be unique per page

{$node->id}

Jo Morg wrote:

rbaby wrote:

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<ul>
<li id="ID">Main Navigation
     <ul id="ID">
          <li>Sub-Item</li>
     </ul>
</li>
<li id="ID2">Main Navigation
     <ul id="ID2">
          <li>Sub-Item</li>
     </ul>
</li>
</ul>

This won't render as valid HTML... and this is your example.

rbaby wrote:Thank you Jo Morg but the idea is that it should be unique per page

That is where one of us is misinterpreting the other....
Being unique per page and being unique within a page are different things... and two elements on the same page cannot have the same id. Other than that you should be able to get any database unique id for a any of the nodes by using the

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{$node->id}

as it is documented on the module's help page...

<ul>
<li><a href="#id">Main Navigation</a>
     <ul id="ID">
          <li>Sub-Item</li>
     </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#id2">Main Navigation</a>
     <ul id="ID2">
          <li>Sub-Item</li>
     </ul>
</li>
</ul>

rbaby wrote:I will try the node ID but I wasn't sure if it would print the same ID for each main/sub.