Highlighting Current Page in menu

[justinchrono]

Can somebody help me out with this?

I am using Egesto as my theme, and automatically it came with a script that would highlight the current page in the top menu.

i think the code is one of these lines..

 

'<?php if ( has_nav_menu( 'main-menu' ) ) { ?>

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'main-menu', 'menu_class' => 'mainnav superfish' ) ); ?> '

 

Anyways, I wanted to make a customized drop down menu. So I removed that top line of code, and put in a line of code to refer to a plugin I downloaded. In the plugin is the HTML for the customized drop down menu...however, the current page is no longer highlighted in the menu..

 

I tried looking this up, seeing something about CSS and giving each link an id, and putting the id in the body tag of each page...HOWEVER, i can not find a body tag for each of my pages, as it is only in the HEADER of the overall website..

 

Can anyone help me with this?

 

THANK YOU!

[cssfreakie]

well seeing just some php (in a html forum) wont help use. Anyway the most used technique for indicating where you are in a menu is by giving it a class.

 

so often you will see that suddenly an item has a class of "active". See for instance the buttons of phpfreaks.com.  If your in the forum the following is the markup for it:

 

<a class="active firstlevel" href="http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php">
<span class="firstlevel">Forum</span>
</a>

 

as you can see it has both a class of active and first level. As far as sucker fish son of sucker fish, there are loads of tutorials on that. Anyway i hope you got the idea on how to indicate that a menu item is active. (by assigning a class)

 

If you have no idea what i mean, get firebug for firefox, right click and inspect element.

 

-> edit you might want to scroll down abit on this page: http://hostmonsterforum.com/showthread.php?5803-php-and-class-quot-active-quot-for-menu

 

Seems someone wrote a nice function to do this.

[justinchrono]

^

thanks, but can you be a little more specific please? there is a lot of junk on that page that i am not following

[cssfreakie]

there are only 2 code snippets on that forum? And if your not following it, calling it junk is a bit odd.

Anyway the folowing could be some thing to have a look at and adjust it to your needs

$pages["home"] = "home page";
$pages["products"] = "our products";
$pages["contact"] = "contact us";

$active_page = $_GET["page"];

foreach($pages as $page => $page_title)
{
  $suffix = ($page == $active_page) ? "_active" : "";
  $nav.= "<a href='?page=".$page."' class='navigation".$suffix."'>$page_title</a>";
}

print $nav;  

.

 

Anyway the general idea is that you give a class to the menu button of for instance "active" tha n in css you just style that class.

in php you can write a function to see what what page you are one, like the code above that assumes you have a $_GET variable

http://yourdomain.com/index.php?page=home

 

Hope this helps a bit.