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Hi,

My problem is that I have a navigation menu embedded on a page to display page content. The menu is dynamically created using the following:

{exp:channel:entries channel="pages" status="open" category="134" orderby="priority" sort="asc" dynamic="no"}

       <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=site/about}">{title}</a></li>  

{/exp:channel:entries}

Normally I would use this to highlight the current:

{if "{segment_1}" == {url_title} class="current"{/if}

but I had to add ‘dymanic=“no”’ because having it enabled meant that only the current menu item showed when the page is rendered. So now finding the {url_title} doesn’t work.

I’ve tried the solution on this page: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/89951/P15 which is to:

Find the current from the URL segment on the display page:

{exp:channel:entries channel="pages" status="open" limit="1" url_title="{last_segment}"}

And add the class using an ‘if’ statement based on the ‘current’ variable:

<li {if "{embed:current}" == "{url_title}"} class="selected"{/if}><a href="http://{title_permalink=site/about}">{title}</a></li>

but this isn’t working as it should, it adds the class to all menu items.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thank you 😊

The dynamic property should not affect that conditional.

Try:

{if segment_1 == url_title} class="current"{/if}

Hi Boyink!

Thanks for your reply.

Your solution adds the class to the current but when I click any of the other links, the menu disappears!  I tried it with dynamic ‘no’ and ‘yes’ and the same happens with both.

I don’t want to list out all the menu items because the client will want to add/remove items themselves via the admin.  Do you have any more suggestions?

Oh, sorry.  You need dynamic=“no” to keep all the menu items present. But it has no effect on segment variables or url_title variables working or not. You’re just telling the channel:entries tag tag to ignore the URL in deciding what to return.

Thanks again for the reply Boyink! That’s solved now 😊

I had ‘dynamic=“no”’ in the page template as well as the embedded menu so once I removed it from the page, it stopped the menu from disappearing.

Cool. Do you grok what the dynamic=“no” does?

Yes, I understand that it’s used to prevent parameters that are passed from being used in results. But I did have to look up ‘grok’ 😊

Yes, I understand that it’s used to prevent parameters that are passed from being used in results.

Um, yes but no..😉

It tells the channel:entries tag from using the URL the template is loading at to know what entries to go pull from the database.

I made this tutorial a while back for EE1 - the terminology has changed but the concepts have not:

http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/dynamic-off-explained