I''d like some advise on how you handle marking website menus as ''selected'' so that you can show different states based on which section of a site you''re in. An example is using tabs like the illustration below. When in the first section, the tab has an outline and when moved to the next section, the second tab has the outline +---------+ | Menu #1 | Menu #2 Menu #3 +---------+ Menu #1 | Menu #2 | Menu #3 To clarify, I know how to do the CSS etc. I''m looking for best practice on tracking this state in a Rails app. Once way that I have thought of is to link the menu to the current controller if controller == XYZ menu is selected else menu is normal end This works in simple cases but doesn''t work well when using nested resources. Thanks for the help Andrew Timberlake http://ramblingsonrails.com http://MyMvelope.com - The SIMPLE way to manage your savings
Andrew Timberlake wrote:> I''d like some advise on how you handle marking website menus as > ''selected'' so that you can show different states based on which > section of a site you''re in. > An example is using tabs like the illustration below. When in the > first section, the tab has an outline and when moved to the next > section, the second tab has the outlineWould current_page be of any help? Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > Andrew Timberlake wrote: >> I''d like some advise on how you handle marking website menus as >> ''selected'' so that you can show different states based on which >> section of a site you''re in. >> An example is using tabs like the illustration below. When in the >> first section, the tab has an outline and when moved to the next >> section, the second tab has the outline > > Would current_page be of any help? >I don''t think so because that seems to do a direct comparison (after splitting off query params) I would need something more generic Andrew Timberlake http://ramblingsonrails.com http://MyMvelope.com - The SIMPLE way to manage your savings
It''s probably not ideal, but I''ve used the simplest possible solution for this in some live code - just set an instance variable in the controller and refer to it in the view / layout where the menu is. You can even set the variable in a before_filter if it is the same across all the actions in your controller. Again, probably not the most "meta" solution available, but able to handle *any* weird site layout you might have. --Matt Jones On Jul 3, 12:56 am, Andrew Timberlake <and...-642hCh26+Dt3UeSHeRwt+FaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I''d like some advise on how you handle marking website menus as > ''selected'' so that you can show different states based on which > section of a site you''re in. > An example is using tabs like the illustration below. When in the > first section, the tab has an outline and when moved to the next > section, the second tab has the outline > > +---------+ > | Menu #1 | Menu #2 Menu #3 > > +---------+ > Menu #1 | Menu #2 | Menu #3 > > To clarify, I know how to do the CSS etc. I''m looking for best > practice on tracking this state in a Rails app. > Once way that I have thought of is to link the menu to the current controller > if controller == XYZ > menu is selected > else > menu is normal > end > > This works in simple cases but doesn''t work well when using nested resources. > > Thanks for the help > > Andrew Timberlakehttp://ramblingsonrails.com > > http://MyMvelope.com- The SIMPLE way to manage your savings