Hi Paul,
I have a sidebar menu on a few of my pages. You get to these pages by browsing from a main menu link. When the page opens, the first item in the sidebar menu is current - it is what is showing on the page. How can I tell the sidebar menu that it's first item is active when a user first browses to the page?

See brilleneyes.cloudapp.net and browse to Collections\Dutz, for example.

I have used code in custom.css to highlight hover and selected items as follows:

/* collection module menus display of active link */
#mainWrap .sidebar ul.nav > li > a:hover,
#mainWrap .sidebar ul.nav > li span.nav-header:hover {
color: white;
background: #CACCB6;
}
#mainWrap .sidebar ul.nav > li.active > a,
#mainWrap .sidebar ul.nav > li.active span.nav-header {
color: white;
background: #607890;
}

Thanks!

If I'm looking at the right page there is no active page on the sidebar

Its the collection Dutz page which is active on the main menu

There is the module title which is in bold

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul,
Yes, it is the Dutz collection which is active on the main menu. When I click on the main menu item Dutz, it takes me to the article index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4.
This is exactly where clicking on the first item of the sidebar menu will take me. I just want to let users know that that is where they are - on Dutz Stainless Steel, and I want to indicate that by showing the sidebar menu as active.
Is there a way to tell the sidebar menu item that it is active?
Thanks, as always,
Pat

Hi Pat,

You could use an alias for the link type on one of the links
but that would mean both are active

Using alias is under system links in menu type

Cheers
Paul

Both being active is fine. Can you point me to some info on how to actually do this? I don't quite get what you are saying....

Basically its using one link twice - you tell it what link you want it to use/copy

Key thing to bear in mind is the real link has the modules assigned to it

docs.joomla.org/Help25:Menus_Menu_Item_Menu_Item_Alias

sorry forgot to say this for Joomla 2.5 but is still valid

Cheers
Paul

Thanks a lot, Paul! I am a bit of a newbie and I worked on this silly thing for a long time without success - and it was so easy! Thanks for your help.

No problem

Its not something people actually use that much and its really helpful

Cheers
Paul

Another thing you might want to look at is added a note to the link that is the alias

So to avoid confusion later on

Cheers
Paul