im using bootstrap pills as my navigation bar.problem is it is not showing the curent active pill with blue color background(like bootstrap)
here is my code
<div style="margin-left: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 10px;">
<ul class="nav nav-pills">
<li class="active">
Home</li>
<li class="">Projects</li>
<li class="">Employee</li>
<li>Forum</li>
</ul>
</div>
the output is here
only the home pill is focused
Add this code inside script tags:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".nav-pills li").click(function(){
$(".active").removeClass("active");
$(this).addClass("active");
});
});
DEMO
To give a full answer based on the comments, your JSFiddle works exactly as expected. The item with the .active class will have the blue background for the pill.
However what I believe you expect to happen is when you click on a link that the pill will automatically become active, this is not how it works.
You will need to generate the menu on the fly and assign the active class during generation or on each page use JS to assign the active class to the correct menu list item. For ease of use I would suggest assigning ID's to the list items so you can do the following:
So say you click on the second menu item, on the Projects.php page you could have the following jquery.
$('#project').addClass("active");
Assuming you gave the menu items IDs.
Related
Logic escapes me for two days on what I'm trying to achieve, which is targeting certain class elements in the wordpress menu with CSS. It is usually simple really for me, but something (small usually) is making me battle.
I need to apply a small background image behind the menu item text to the "active" or "current" menu item. But this must apply ONLY to the parent menu items (not on any of the child/submenu dropdown items). Applying the background image is fine, so that's not the issue. It's targeting only on the parent item that's the issue.
I've tried variations of the following CSS (forgot about the background image for now, I'm keeping it simple here, to resolve the targeting) to make the current/active PARENT menu item text turn red:
.main-navigation div ul li.current-menu-parent a:not(.sub-menu)
{color: red !important;}
(I have commented out this custom CSS on the website, to prevent confusion)
The :not pseudo I thought would do the trick but it's possibly my failure at syntax, even though I googled it, to which I may learn something further about CSS today, when resolved.
It's not working how I expect it to. Any ideas? I might revert back here again if I battle with the background image, but I suspect once the 'CSS targeting' is worked out, that shouldn't be an issue to apply.
Thank you brainy people :)
The answer is more simple than you think: use the > CSS selector. See articles here and here.
For example:
Codepen
/* Target top level only */
.my_navigation > li > a {
background-color: yellow;
}
/* Or perhaps target only top-level with children */
.my_navigation > .has_children > a {
background-color: orange;
}
<div>
<h1>Only top-level parents get styled:</h1>
<ul class="my_navigation">
<li>Link 1</li>
<li class="current_link has_children">
Link 2
<ul>
<li>Link 2a</li>
<li class="current_link has_children">Link 2b
<ul>
<li>Link I</li>
<li>Link II</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Link 2c</li>
<li>Link 2d</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Link 3
<ul>
<li>Link 3a</li>
<li>Link 3b</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Link 4</li>
</ul>
</div>
Using Javascript (e.g. jQuery) is overkill in this case. It would be a different story if you're using an eventlistener and need to get the parent of the clicked target; in that case you DO need JS because as others have mentioned CSS doesn't yet have a parent selector yet (but it seems like it's coming in CSS4).
However here you just need to style items on page rendering, and WP provides plethora of classes to work with. Also: Do a Google search for "wordpress menu class walker function" and you can generate some more classes, like identify each level of menu e.g. ".top-level", ".second-level", etc.
try below, this will select the a tag which is direct child of li.current-menu-parent.
.main-navigation div ul li.current-menu-parent > a{color: red !important;}
Seems jQuery was the way to go for the solution, based on the thread Is there a CSS parent selector? posted by #Paulie_D, thank you!
My jQuery solution below targeting only the active parent menu item and inserting a small background image on the <li> menu tag. You can see the yellow 'paint swish' image happening in the screenshot below.
The .not is used to exclude targeting the dropdown submenu items (their class is .sub-menu):
$('.main-navigation .current-menu-item, .main-navigation .current-menu-parent').not('.sub-menu li').css(
{
'background-image':'url(PATH TO YOUR IMAGE HERE)',
'background-size': '100% 50px',
'background-repeat': 'no-repeat',
'background-position': 'center'
}
);
Thanks for your input. I learnt something today.
in my site i have menu and sub menu
my problem when i focus by tab to the menu, the menu opened like i hovered the menu by mouse.
but when i continued to the sub menu elements with tab the menu closed.
how can i keep the menu open if some of sub element is focused.
of course i can do it via javascript, but i want to know if i can do it with css only.
here is example (try go to links with 'tab' )
li.main{
float:left;
width:200px;
}
li .sub{
display:none;
}
li:hover .sub{
display:block
}
li.main:focus .sub{
display:block
}
<ul>
<li class="main" tabindex="0">
First menu
<div class='sub'>
<ul>
<li>First Link </li>
<li>Second Link </li>
</ul>
</div>
</li> <li class="main" tabindex="0">
Second menu
<div class='sub'>
<ul>
<li>Third Link </li>
<li>Forth Link </li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
With the current possibilities of CSS, you can't, as it was discussed in a lot of questions before (see accessible css dropdown menu for instance).
First of all, you can't use "display:none" in such approach because the link can't be accessed using the next link shortcut (tab key in most of the browsers implementation).
Solutions which work will imply solutions like positioning out of screen. It will restrict the view on screen to the current link as there is no parent() selector in CSS, or you might use a trick like in the above thread (which will work in some browsers and limit the width of the dropdown part).
But no matter the solution, it will not resolve the main problem : a dropdown menu is not the best way to achieve accessibility.
For instance, people with disabilities using eye tracking software will never benefit of a dropdown menu. Neither will people using tablet.
It is always something difficult to use, difficult to understand : What if I click on the category link? Does it open the category main page, or does it open the submenu?
If you really want an accessible menu, do not use a dropdown menu
I don't know what I am looking for, but when pressing an item, the two others changes for a black background, I can't figure out which rule is applied on those two "not pressed items".
I tried setting active / focus states on the pressed element but had nothing to do with it.
It's a simple bootstrap 3 menu built with the following code:
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li>
<a class="user-display-name" href="/galaxy/profile">Pascal Lalonde</a>
</li>
<li><a data-current-locale="en" href="/galaxy/repos?locale=fr">FR</a></li>
<li class="open">
<a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="/galaxy/"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></span><i class="fa fa-caret-down borderless"></i></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li>
Repository
</li>
<li>TDP</li>
<li>RK</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
What is it I am missing?
Here's the screenshot of the behavior:
[EDIT]
I am being asked to provide sample CSS code, but if I could, this would mean that I'd already have my answer. I don't know what I am looking for.
I am trying to debug the behavior so I can find what is causing this to happen.
Thing is this happens only when I actually press on the "TDP" option, I cannot debug in the console while "pressing" on the item, because a click triggers the link to continue.
So my question here, is what kind of CSS rule could be applied when an item is pressed? If nothing is there, would this mean that Bootstrap actually execute something when pressing on it? It tried looking at the dropdown javascript code, did not see anything like it.
[EDIT #2]
Just realized this happens in the template I am using.
Click here to see.
Choose the user option in the top right menu and then just "press" any of the shown options. All others will be displayed black.
[EDIT #3]
It seems the other elements gets "activated" while pressing the other menu options, this causing the background of the not-pressed items of the menu to change. I still don't understand why forcing the :active state through the browser doesn't apply the css rules, but this fixed what I "don't understand yet"
.navbar .navbar-nav li .dropdown-menu:active {
background-color: #fff;
}
As said by Schmalzy you have a custom CSS it would be nice if you can include that in the question.
Or you can try to change .dropdown-menu > li > a:hover { background-color: transparent; }
Let me if that helps
I have a menu structure I built in HTML+CSS that I would like to incorporate into a WordPress menu, but I am new to extending the Walker class and was wondering if someone could show me an example of how it might work. The code I would like to output is below:
<!-- Menu Start -->
<nav class="collapse navbar-collapse menu">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav sf-menu">
<li><a id="current" href="front-page.php">Current Page</a></li>
<li>Top Level Menu <span class="sf-sub-indicator"><i class="fa fa-angle-down"></i></span>
<ul>
<li>Child Link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Another Link No Children</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<!-- Menu End -->
The nav and ul tags wrap the entire menu and do not need repeating.
The li for a single page without any child pages just needs an anchor tag inside of a bare li, except if the page is current, and add the appropriate id to the a tag.
If there is a parent item with children, display the parent link first with a "sf-with-ul" class on the a tag, then make another ul group with its li children have the same class as well.
Could anyone point me in the right direction here on how to accomplish this? Thank you.
Unfortunately I don't have a massive amount of time to write an example right now but I can send you the article that goes into decent detail on how to create walkers in WordPress.
How to add custom HTML to wp_nav_menu?
Using this as a guide it should be possible to add classes where you want to add them and structure your menu. If not I can try and whip an example up later.
I have this menu:
<div id="menu-home">
<ul>
<li> a </li>
</ul>
</div>
When I am on the test.php page that corresponds to test menu, I need it's li to have a different style..
I tried
#menu-home ul li:active
but it didn't work..
Thanks
There is no :active state for <li>
Instead you can do it with PHP.
<div id="menu-home">
<ul>
<li <?php if (page is current page) echo ' class="active"';?>> a </li>
</ul>
</div>
And in the CSS, you can give this:
#menu-home ul li.active {}
The <li> element does not have an active state, since it is just meant to be a (stateless) bullet point. The selector :active can only be used on a link; an example can be found here.
However, :active will only highlight the link as it is clicked. After that, it performs whatever action and/or navigation it is set to do and then the link will be visited. From there on you can't tell it apart from the other already visited pages that you are not currently viewing and it does not become "unvisited" again, even if you navigate to another page. So this does not do what you intend.
Instead, I would create a class .active in your CSS where you can define all your custom styling. Then, the PHP that generates your pages needs to take care of setting the class correctly on the selected menu item, ie.: attach class="active" it either to the <li> or the <a> whenever the menu is build.
(yeah, just see Praveen's answer for the code ^^)