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Hello,

I built a EE-Site with a Navigation based on the Channel Categories Tag. And now I search a solution for the fowolling problem:

If an user click on any navigation-button (example “Lösungen”), than should be this button in an active status, please look to my example graphic.

The simple way is class=“aktiv”:

<li><a href="#class=aktiv">Lösungen</a></li>

But I don’t see a chance to input this in the navigation with the Channel Categories Tag. Or is there a solution?

Please consider, my customer wish only few channels.

The Navigation contains sub menus. I work with EE 2.1.3

I hope for your help. Thanks 😊

Ok, I’ve found a little solution to highlight the current link (RTFM 😉:

{if category_url_title==segment_2}class="aktiv"{/if}

But now I have a new problem. If I click on any submenu-button in the drop down menu - example “Technische Dokumente” - than disappears the highlight link again.

Is there a way to avert this? Thanks, I hope for your experience:-)

Hi Raplhs,
Considering your url segment (segment_2) changes based on the category you selected the following code should work.

{exp:query sql="SELECT parent_id from exp_categories where cat_url_title='{segment_2}'"}
    {if parent_id == "0"}
        {if category_url_title == segment_2}class="aktiv"{/if} 
    {if:else}
        {exp:query sql="SELECT cat_url_title from exp_categories where cat_id={parent_id}"}
            {if category_url_title == cat_url_title}class="aktiv"{/if}
        {/exp:query} 
    {/if}
{/exp:query}

I’m not sure if there’s a simple way to do this.

Srikanth

Thank you very much. This way doesn’t work. The submenus disappears.
The simply code without “category_url_title==segment_2”:

{exp:channel:categories channel="leistung" show_empty="no"}
<a href="http://{path=leistung/{category_url_title}}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:channel:categories}

Ralphs,

This is more of a How to question so moving to Community help for you.  You may need to adjust the syntax slightly with the following

{exp:query sql="SELECT parent_id from exp_categories where cat_url_title='{segment_2}'"}
    {if parent_id == "0"}
        {if category_url_title == "{segment_2}"}class="aktiv"{/if} 
    {if:else}
        {exp:query sql="SELECT cat_url_title from exp_categories where cat_id='{parent_id}'"}
            {if category_url_title == "{cat_url_title}"}class="aktiv"{/if}
        {/exp:query} 
    {/if}
{/exp:query}

Other than that try Selected or CatMenu

Thanks for the modification John. I missed it.

No problems Srikanth. Thanks for helping out. Hopefully it will for him now