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But you are linking to a “services_headline” template?

This isn’t working currently because there is no url_title appearing in the segment_2 position.  My coding approach assumes the left nav links right back to the same template but showing an individual entry.

But you are linking to a “services_headline” template?

This isn’t working currently because there is no url_title appearing in the segment_2 position.  My coding approach assumes the left nav links right back to the same template but showing an individual entry.

The code was stripped in this forum for some reason.

This is the complete form of the above code.

<div class="grid_3 alpha omega leftNav">
                <h3>About</h3>
<p>                <ul><br />
                    {exp:channel:entries channel="services" dynamic="no" offset="1" sort="asc" disable="pagination|member_data|categories|category_fields"}<br />
                    <li {if segment_2=="{url_title}"}class="leftNav_current"{/if}><a href="http://{url_title_path=services}">{services_headline}</a></li><br />
                    {/exp:channel:entries}<br />
                </ul><br />
            </div>

“{services_headline}” is a custom field from the Services channel

So this is your nav code - I assume you have another weblog entries loop in the main content area?

Are you getting links?  What happens if you click on one?

Yes, I’m sorry I didn’t notice before.

1. Main content and the right sidebar calls it’s own unique loop (all from the same Services channel). Nothing mysterious there. It is self contained and with no hacks.

2. The Nav works fine, the only thing is that it is not being highlighted like your example website.

(I always thought that this was how EE worked unless I hard-coded the entire nav.)

Thanks!

Whats the URL after you click a navigation link?

Clear cache?  Also, to double-check, just output {segment_2} somewhere.

Whats the URL after you click a navigation link?

index.php/services/technical-due-diligence

I’m using {url_title_path="services"} so it appends the url_title to it. I also used path=“services” as well

You have:

<li {if segment_2=="{url_title}"}class="leftNav_current"{/if}><a href="http://{url_title_path=">{services_headline}</a></li>

Try:

<li {if segment_2==url_title}class="leftNav_current"{/if}><a href="http://{url_title_path=">{services_headline}</a></li>

Could you post the entire template code?

[edit]also, what Mike said.  If things like this don’t work, I start adding and removing quotes and brackets…

Clear cache?  Also, to double-check, just output {segment_2} somewhere.

I just outputted now and it is working. Cache is cleared - no dice.

Tried using single quotes vs. double quotes too - no dice.

thanks, i’m actually investigating your method now again.

Note on my version I don’t have the braces around the variable names.

I see it’s working 😊

Mike, do you know if there are any docs/references on when to use/not use brackets?

Thanks,
Aaron

MIKE BOYINK - you are a saint.

So it looked like the {url_title} vs. url_title did the trick but WHY?! The official documentation is that EE variables is supposed to be inside brackets!

BTW, thank you so much! I’ll do my best to go buy something at TRAIN-EE this week

I see it’s working 😊

Mike, do you know if there are any docs/references on when to use/not use brackets?

Thanks,
Aaron

Thanks to you as well Aaron, I’m actually quite intrigues by the notion of preload_replace and will investigate further.

pEEpz rock!

I just followed the examples on the Global Conditional Variables page - where variable inside of conditionals are used without their braces.

It also suggests words would go in quotes (single or double), but if comparing to a number then no quotes needed.

Glad you got it working…;)