Hi folks,
I have a sidebar zen menu and I want the third menu item to display its submenu items by default. In other words I want this menu item to be expanded by default.

I can't seem to figure out how.
Cheers,
G

Hi G,

Does this mean you don't want the first two links to always be expanded?

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul,
Somewhat... In this menu, one of my menu items, which happens to be the third, has submenu items. I want tthose to be expanded/shown by default when this sidebar menu is displayed.

Link:
theneighbourhoodclinic.com/conditions-treated

look at the sidebar ... Massage Services.

Hi guys,
I think this one fell through the cracks...I'm still looking for the solution.
Cheers,
G

Hi G,

I think you could do this but it would mean all menu items were expanded on every parent link - would that be a problem?

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul,
This would not be ideal but could work for a while since currently there is only one menu item with submenus.

1. How would I do this?
2. Is the only canned option to to expand only the first menu item? or are there other option settings I'm not aware of?

Cheers,
Gilles

Hi Giles,

This is what Joomla can do rather than the template - I'd perhaps look on the Joomla Extension Directory to see if there is anything that will suit you better

Cheers
Paul

ah OK.
I wasn't aware it was a Joomla function, thought there was a setting in the menu (mega menu) to control this.

I guess I'll have to move that menu item to the top if I want it to expand by default when the module is displayed.

Too bad.
Gilles

Hi Giles,

The mega menu is only the main menu not the sidebar I'm afraid

Good luck with it

Cheers
Paul

I meant "zen menu" but the answer is likely the same

yep afraid so

Talking about this with Anthony it may be possible to do this using css if you target the div

.item-58 ul {display:block !important}

Cheers
Paul

Thanks for digging deeper on this one Paul. It "works" but.... the user can't collapse the submenus and the +/- icon becomes confusing as the user can not collapse the menu, leaving the user scrathing their head as to what the icon is for.

Unless you have another idea, I'll have to tell my client they can't have the menu in alphabetic order as I 'll need to move this expandable menu at the top to force it to be expanded on page load.

By the way, I have another project coming up and was wondering when the next template will be released? Ideas?

I'm afraid not idea wise apart from checking the Joomla extension Directory as I suggested before

Cheers
Paul

Template wise I'll need to get back you on that

Cheers

Hi

Template wise

Can you check out this this blog post - at the bottom

www.joomlabamboo.com/blog/joomla-extensions/exif-data-for-images-manual-links-and-more-for-zentools2

Cheers
Paul

Thanks Paul,
Gilles

You're welcome

Cheers
Paul