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grumpypanda
grumpypanda

Reputation: 571

Toggle menu issue

I've got a toggle menu, please see http://jsfiddle.net/Wp2em/41/ for code and functions.

On the real site which is using the same code, everytime when you click on h3 (Category 1, 2 & 3 which is an a tag at the moment), it toggles its submenu down a bit, then the page changes to a new h3 linking page, and the submenu collapses together on the new page.

I'm just wondering is there any way I can tell the submenu to be open when its parent page/the new h3 linking page is opened? Please see this bank site which has the side bar effect I'd like my toggle menu to be.

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 387

Answers (3)

colemande
colemande

Reputation: 392

Here is my fiddle

all you will need to do is put the class "currentPage" on the li that you are currently on and the menu should be open after the page loads. I also moved some of your css around so it should move a little smoother now.

** Updated fiddle code. It will now look at your current URL and set the link that matches with it to the currentPage. Also I added that if another menu is open it will close itself if you click on another parent menu

** Updated fiddle code. Ok now if you click on the arrow the menu will expand and not go to the link(like the bank site). Also I changed it where you will have to put the anchor tag in all parent H3s.

Upvotes: 2

Frank van Wijk
Frank van Wijk

Reputation: 3262

If the page loads and the submenu (ul.second_level) is generated (i.e. from php), parse an active css class on the submenu that must be visible.

ul.active {
    display: block
}

ul.second_level {
    display: none
}

This is in addition to your click function. Do not trigger the click event since it starts the animation (which I presume you don't want).

Update:

It is quite basic stuff, but I do not know how the HTML code for your menu is created. If you are using php and a database (for example) to create the menu, check every submenu item with the page you are on. If the page is one of the pages in the submenu, set the class 'active' on that submenu. The CSS does the rest (displaying this submenu and hide other submenus).

If you have a static page, use javascript to check on which page you are with window.location.href for example. The rest is the same.

Upvotes: 0

James Ellis-Jones
James Ellis-Jones

Reputation: 3092

This is not too simple. I've had a very similar problem, although I was posting the page back to the same url so I used a hidden field to store a list of the id's of the H3's which were open.

You I think will have to use a cookie to do this as you're navigating straight to the new page. The idea is you create a cookie and set a value on it every time you open an H3 and remove it every time you close it. You can use this plugin to do this. Then when you open the other page, the script reads the H3's which should be open out of the cookie and opens them.

Another route would be to use Ajax to post the open/closed H3 information back to the server which would store it in session data and use it to build the HTML of the new page so the right H3's were open.

Upvotes: 0

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