http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern Tips – Hierarchical category menu with articles Hierarchical category menu with articles - comments https://textpattern.tips/hierarchical-category-menu-with-articles Fri, 11 Nov 11 10:38:00 +0000 Comment on Hierarchical category menu with articles by Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg 1 1 Fri, 04 Nov 11 12:40:34 +0000 WOW!
Just trying this on a new website.
Still have to understand how to tweak and style this monster.
Main issue with creating a category driven sidebar menu was that your adi_cat_menu doesn’t offer such multi-level output :)

]]> WOW!
Just trying this on a new website.
Still have to understand how to tweak and style this monster.
Main issue with creating a category driven sidebar menu was that your adi_cat_menu doesn’t offer such multi-level output :)

]]> Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg Comment on Hierarchical category menu with articles by Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg 1 1 Sun, 06 Nov 11 17:56:21 +0000 Class active_cat needs to be assigned to the a instead of li. Otherwise the class is applied to the whole li including the submenu ul.

Pls. note the nested tags with one ' and two single quotes. My working code for active anchors (TXP 4.4.1):

<li><txp:category title="1" link="1"
 class='<txp:if_category name=''<txp:category />''>
active_cat
</txp:if_category>' />

This needs to be done for cat_menu and all three submenus.

txp:category

class=“class name”
(X)HTML class attribute, applied to wraptag. If no wraptag is supplied (and link=“1”), the class is applied to the anchor instead.
Default: unset.

(The same is true for articles dangling at the appropriate places. They are listed at the end of the submenu .. still have to check that.)

]]> Class active_cat needs to be assigned to the a instead of li. Otherwise the class is applied to the whole li including the submenu ul.

Pls. note the nested tags with one ' and two single quotes. My working code for active anchors (TXP 4.4.1):

<li><txp:category title="1" link="1"
 class='<txp:if_category name=''<txp:category />''>
active_cat
</txp:if_category>' />

This needs to be done for cat_menu and all three submenus.

txp:category

class=“class name”
(X)HTML class attribute, applied to wraptag. If no wraptag is supplied (and link=“1”), the class is applied to the anchor instead.
Default: unset.

(The same is true for articles dangling at the appropriate places. They are listed at the end of the submenu .. still have to check that.)

]]> Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg Comment on Hierarchical category menu with articles by Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg 1 1 Fri, 11 Nov 11 10:35:55 +0000 Another small trap.
Per default the menu outputs li which filter the landing page by section.

Example: If all articles reside in section ‘articles’ the landing page will be empty if you click the menu inside section ‘about’.

Deactivate the section filter: To get consistent landing pages you have to add section="" to txp:category.

<li><txp:category title="1" link="1"
 class='<txp:if_category name=''<txp:category />''>
active_cat
</txp:if_category>' />

txp:category

section=“section name”
Restricts category search to named section.
Default: current section (for backwards compatibility).

]]> Another small trap.
Per default the menu outputs li which filter the landing page by section.

Example: If all articles reside in section ‘articles’ the landing page will be empty if you click the menu inside section ‘about’.

Deactivate the section filter: To get consistent landing pages you have to add section="" to txp:category.

<li><txp:category title="1" link="1"
 class='<txp:if_category name=''<txp:category />''>
active_cat
</txp:if_category>' />

txp:category

section=“section name”
Restricts category search to named section.
Default: current section (for backwards compatibility).

]]> Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg Comment on Hierarchical category menu with articles by Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg 1 1 Fri, 11 Nov 11 10:38:00 +0000 Sorry, I forgot to add the section="" to the code. This is the correct one:

<li><txp:category section="" title="1" link="1"
 class='<txp:if_category name=''<txp:category />''>
active_cat
</txp:if_category>' />
]]> Sorry, I forgot to add the section="" to the code. This is the correct one:

<li><txp:category section="" title="1" link="1"
 class='<txp:if_category name=''<txp:category />''>
active_cat
</txp:if_category>' />
]]> Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg