CMenu activeCssClass doesn't seem to be working.

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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i read in the documentation that the CMenu widget automatically assigns a class=“active” to a currently active item. when i view the selection’s source, i don’t see any class=“active” in any of my menu items. i think it’s not working or something. i need this to set a background image for an active link via css. i already have .active ul li{color:#F00;} in my css file but it doesn’t show anyhow. pls help… thank you

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recheck your css file. i think you don’t have that structure of active element.




.active ul li{color:#F00;}
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well for starters, it is documented that CMenu assigns the ‘active’ class on an li.

and i do have that kind of structure…

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Hi Kael.

Cmenu assigns authomatically only if the path is the same of the url property.

If, for example, you have the url set to array(‘controllerId’) and the page called is controllerId/index, CMenu will not assign this property.

For make it work, there is the property ‘active’.

You can set:




   'url'=>'user'

   'active'=>$this->uniqueId=='user'

Like that the link will be active for all actions of the controller userController (uniqueId is the indentificator of the controller).

For debug, I advice you to choose an item in the menu and write:




   'active'=>true

so you can easily check your css. After it you can try to make it dynamic

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hi Zac! thank you very much!!! pretty much the answer i needed. :D