| Joomla! 1.5 Native Split Menus |
| Written by Kenneth Crowder | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunday, 11 May 2008 18:35 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Joomla! 1.5 has many cool new features that have made our lives easier. In the Joomla! 1.0.x line, if you wanted to have Split Menus, you had to "trick" the system into doing what you wanted by micromanaging Menus and their Menu Items. Some big name template makers had fancy scripts that would mimic this technology in the past. Let's see it in action! This first image is an image of the Main Menu once "Features" is selected. You can see that the Sub-Navigation drops out underneath its parent. This is the typical way menus work. Let's now take a look at what the Split Navigation looks like. As you can see from this image, once the "Features" menu item was clicked, it's Sub-Navigation did not drop down like normal. It shows up on the right side. This is because I told it to show up on the right side. You could have it show anywhere you wish as it is its own module, independent of Main Menu. The only part that ties the two together is that they are pulling data from the same menu. Let's see how to do this yourself!
Hopefully, this sheds a little light on the subject of Split Menus and gives you new insight of another of the many new feature available in Joomla! 1.5. Kenneth Crowder has been involved in the Joomla! Community since the days of Mambo. He has volunteered many hours to help out the Open Source Project. He is considered an expert in all things related to Joomla!. He was a Technical Reviewer for Joomla! A Users Guide, as well as another book currently in the editing phase. Learn more about Ken.
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Matt
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Thanks for this article. I have created a sub-menu on my site. I was wondering whether it is possible to create a further sub-menu? My structure currently is: Section -Category With category in the sub-menu. I would like the structure to be: Section -Category -Article With the article in a sub-menu which only appears once a category is clicked on. Do you know how to achieve this? |
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Étienne
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Hi, First, thanks for this article, I was looknig for this since a long time. I used to have on top menu with 5 links, so 5 other menus displayed on the left once selected on the top menu. I changed this to have a single menu, the top menu displays only the 0-1 depth item, andthe left menu deisplays the 1-5 sub-menu item. But once I click on an article in the left menu, the article is shown but the left menu disapears, very strange (it's supposed to be shown on every page). Any idea why ? Thanks a lot. -> |
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Chris
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Nice tip Kenneth! Funny thing is that i have played with the new menu loads of times and completely missed the split option! |
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Amit
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Kenneth, I have been trying to accomplish on my site. It works to an extent. It does show the sub items on the split menu but it does not show the parent menu item holding them. I have tried all the start and end levels. Can't seem to break the mystery. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, |
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David
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Thanks for this article! So I changed the end level of my topmenu to 1. Then I created a new menu, called submenu with start level 1, end level 5. But how can I tell my submenu to show the correspondenting subnavigation item when I click on a topmenu item? |
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