I think I understood most of that already. Maybe my explanation of
what I was looking for was lacking. Essentially, I am trying to
implement the concept discussed here:
http://css-tricks.com/pointer-events-current-nav/
but in html instead of css.
On Aug 4, 3:59 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> The <ul>...</ul> code in Django in web2py translates with
>
> {{=MENU(response.menu)}}
>
> where (using the data in your example)
>
> response.menu=[
> ('Home',request.function=='home',URL(r=request,f='home'),[]),
> ('Store Information',request.function=='info',URL(r=request,f=info'),
> []),
> ]
>
> The latter code can go in menu.py but you can place it in any mode.
> MENU(...) takes arguments that allows you to customize the class of
> the <ul> amd <li>. It also handles submenu (the [] above are
> submenus).
>
> On Aug 3, 4:38 pm, mwolfe02 <michael.joseph.wo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I wrote this simple website using Django (http://www.heberlings.com/). As
> > part of the navigation, I wanted to turn off
> > the link for the currently active page. If you visit the site and
> > click on a couple of the menu items on the left side of the page, you
> > will see what I mean.
>
> > To implement this in Django, I did the following in my base.html view
> > (or as Django calls it, template):
>
> > <!-- Start of left-hand side navigation -->
> > {% url heb-home as url_home %}
> > {% url heb-info as url_info %}
> > ...
> > <div id="nav">
> > <ul>
> > {% ifequal request.path url_home %}
> > <li id="current">Home</li>
> > {% else %}
> > <li><a href="{{ url_home }}">Home</a></li>
> > {% endifequal %}
> > {% ifequal request.path url_info %}
> > <li id="current">Store Information</li>
> > {% else %}
> > <li><a href="{{ url_info }}">Store Information</a></li>
> > {% endifequal %}
> > ...
>
> > I always felt this was kludgy and I had trouble getting it to work
> > just right. (Note: I did this a couple of years ago, things may have
> > changed in Django since then.)
>
> > My question is this: how would I do this sort of thing in web2py?
> > Should I implement this in models/menu.py? What is the best practice?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mike
