Help with Navigation

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I'm currently using CSS to style my navigational menu. I also have jquery at my disposal. The basic structure is like this:

<div id="nav">   <div class="inner-container">     <div id="wrap">       <div class="inner">         <h2>                                      <span class="h-ico ico-active"><span>Active Menu Item</span></span>         </h2>                                 <ul>           <li><a class="h-ico ico-users" href="/contacts"><span>Menu Item</span></a></li>           <li><a class="h-ico ico-othermenuitem" href="/tasks"><span>Menu Item</span></a></li>         </ul>       </div>     </div><!-- #wrap -->         </div><!-- .inner-container --> </div><!-- #nav -->

My question: What would be the best way to call the current page, and using some kind of conditional statement to say (in theory):

"If the current page is this, then put it in the H2 heading and exclude it from the unordered list."

Thanks in advance for any help at all.

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Steve Castaneda wrote:

I'm currently using CSS to style my navigational menu. I also have jquery at my disposal. The basic structure is like this:

<div id="nav">   <div class="inner-container">     <div id="wrap">       <div class="inner">         <h2>                                      <span class="h-ico ico-active"><span>Active Menu Item</span></span>         </h2>                                 <ul>           <li><a class="h-ico ico-users" href="/contacts"><span>Menu Item</span></a></li>           <li><a class="h-ico ico-othermenuitem" href="/tasks"><span>Menu Item</span></a></li>         </ul>       </div>     </div><!-- #wrap -->         </div><!-- .inner-container --> </div><!-- #nav -->

Your CSS and HTML are irrelevant. This is a Rails question.

My question: What would be the best way to call the current page, and using some kind of conditional statement to say (in theory):

Have you looked at current_page? ?

"If the current page is this, then put it in the H2 heading and exclude it from the unordered list."

Don't remove it from the list. Navigation menus are least confusing when they're consistent.

Best,

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

Have you looked at current_page? ?

Thanks. current_page? worked great. I think it can be refactored but for now it's working the way I want it.

I basically did:

<% if current_page?( :controller => 'example' ) ...HTML goes here... <% end %>

For the H2 "active" area, and then left the UL list with all menu options like you suggested.

Thanks as always, Marnen.

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Hi there,

for your next project, you might want to check out the simple- navigation plugin which does everything for you (except the styling/ css): http://github.com/andi/simple-navigation

All the best for 2010 Andi