When I read that the alpha had the ability to click *the menu item bullet* to expand the 'child subs' (allowing the parent item to be actually viewed rather than only expanding the subs), I creamed my pants and installed it on my D6.9 test site as fast as my little stubby fingers could punch the keystrokes.

However, it slowly dawned on me that this feature is D7 only, and is why the version is called 7.x-1.0.. doh!

Will this feature make it into the D6 version, or is it not possible with the D6 code-freeze?

DHTML is my favourite module - the only thing 'wrong' with it (although it's by design) is that no user on the planet knows that they have to double-click on parents in order to go to parent's page; it is a grubby little admin secret! The 'Add an extra page link...' option is a partial work around, but can be just as confusing IMO, especially with menu highlighting activated, and a vertical menu used in conjunction with the horizontal menu.

Thanks.

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-Anti-’s picture

-Anti- commented

Any feedback about whether this feature ('clickable bullets') will be back ported to the D6 version?

I'm playing with the jquerymenu module simply because it has this feature, although it doesn't offer the options that DHTML does, and I don't trust jquery modules that much. But I might have to go with it just so that users can see the parent pages without confusion.

Thanks for any info/advise.

EDIT:
Actually, you know what... I've been experimenting with jquerymenu for a bit, and I actually think that it isn't a great solution either. I prefer the DHTML menu 'fake-leaf' approach! However, what is off-putting is that when the fake leaf is highlighted (active), the parent is also highlighted. I can't see how to style it so that the parent does not highlight at all?

Thanks

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damjank commented

Take a look at issue #402470: Subtree expansion button, which deals with a similar topic.

-Anti-’s picture

-Anti- commented

Thanks for the heads up.
Actually, what I did was to delete all related css in the theme I downloaded, and
start again, and I managed to get what I needed using the 'fake leaf' approach.
Parents highlight as one colour, and children highlight as another. So:

prospectus <-- light red
    prospectus <-- NOT highlighted
    about us
    history
    structure <-- light red
        structure <-- NOT highlighted
        departments
        office <-- current page (orange)
        senior staff
    facilities
    services

Works great for my purpose.

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cburschka
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Unfortunately, the change to make list items clickable is very drastic and hasn't been fully tested yet, and will likely cause dozens of error reports once more people use the D7 version. I'd rather not have to deal with that much breakage in two different branches, as I'm already fixing a lot of bugs twice (once in D7, once in D6).

Someone else is working on a patch for D6, however: #345016: Expand menu items when list icon clicked. I'm not sure if the approach will work for all themes, but we'll see.

(Please direct follow-up to the linked issue.)