Hi all,

I successfully embedded a top menu snippet (menu-top.html) which looks like this:

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<li><a href="<cms:link 'about.php' />"<cms:if k_template_name=='about.php'> class="selected"</cms:if>>About</a></li>
<li><a href="<cms:link 'services.php' />"<cms:if k_template_name=='services.php'> class="selected"</cms:if>>Services</a></li>

I have almost the same menu at the bottom of the page, so I tried a second embed snippet (menu-bottom.html) but this time, each <a> has a class of "footerlinks". My head has become a little dizzy after some vain trials of getting this additional class into the above code.

This is my target code in the footernav that I want to achieve:

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<li><a href="http://mydomain.com/about.php" class="footerlinks selected">About</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mydomain.com/services.php" class="footerlinks">Services</a></li>

So, where in the embed snippet (menu-top.html) do I put the "footerlinks" class to make it my corresponding menu-bottom.html snippet?
Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks.

Solaris

[cheesypoof]

You could always just make a new snippet file for the bottom menu: menu-bottom.html

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<li><a href="<cms:link 'about.php' />" class="footerlinks<cms:if k_template_name=='about.php'> selected</cms:if>">About</a></li>
<li><a href="<cms:link 'services.php' />" class="footerlinks<cms:if k_template_name=='services.php'> selected</cms:if>">Services</a></li>

If you want to only use one snippet file for both menus, I'm sure we could come up with something.

Hi cheesypoof,

You could always just make a new snippet file for the bottom menu: menu-bottom.html

That's what I wanted to get across - please excuse my incoherent English at this nightly hour!

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<li><a href="<cms:link 'about.php' />" class="footerlinks<cms:if k_template_name=='about.php'> selected</cms:if>">About</a></li>
<li><a href="<cms:link 'services.php' />" class="footerlinks<cms:if k_template_name=='services.php'> selected</cms:if>">Services</a></li>

Great, that's what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
Stupid me, in my trials, had added class="footerlinks" in front of <cms, just like you did, but forgot to delete "class" in front of "selected", so the output had "class" twice

If you want to only use one snippet file for both menus, I'm sure we could come up with something.

Well, it would be reallly interesting to see such a solution, if only in order to learn more about the many possibilities CouchCMS offers.

Thanks again for your kind help!

Solaris

Oh, well, I rejoiced too early, sorry
Just from looking at your above code made me think it was the perfect solution, but after trying it I see it doesn't work yet.
The code for the selected link comes out fine, but the other links are missing the closing quotes:
This is the faulty output:

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<li><a href="http://www.mydomain.com/about.php" class="footerlinks selected">About</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mydomain.com/services.php" class="footerlinks>Services</a></li>

See the missing quotes after the second footerlinks class?
So I still have the problem of accomodating links with 2 or more classes within the snippet.html.

So, further suggestions are very welcome!
Off to bed now, will check again here tomorrow
Thanks!

Solaris

[KK]

@solaris,
As far as I can see, cheesypoof's snippet works just fine.
Please review the code you are using. Probably the cut/paste resulted in introducing a typo.

@KK

You are right, my mistake
ATM, I only find time to test CouchCMC very late at night, so my concentration is not at its peak.
Nonetheless, I am making progress and am already in love with this CMS.

@cheesypoof

I apologize for my error, see above.
You've really got the hang of it, great
Yours is indeed the perfect code for a second embed snippet, and I even changed my top menu snippet accordingly, since it worked but your code is cleaner which also shows in Notepad++.

So thanks again to the two of you for your generous help - much appreciated!

Solaris