In the menu I’d like to have a bit more verbose title attribute for some of the items. I’m not using “Pre” or “Post” so I could hijack one of those like this: <a class="nav-menu--link" href="{{.URL}}" title="{{ or .Pre .Name }}">{{ .Name }}</a>, but I’d prefer to be able to simply define custom HTM…

Why do you need to “hijack”? Just create the anchor (a class …) the way you want.

Perhaps I’m not explaining myself very well. Let me try again. In my config.toml I’m declaring my menu items like this: [menu] [[menu.main]] name = "Home" identifier = "home" url = "/" weight = 0 [[menu.main]] name = "Category 1" identifier = "category1" url = "/cat…

@SandorHQ why would you set your menu items to target a new window/tab? Why not use the same value for name and title? If you’re defining all of this in your config, what’s the value-add for creating additional nesting within these params?

OK, I understand. The menu system has no concept of “attributes” so the pre/post is the current solution.

I might want to have a menu item which should open an affiliate link in a new window. For this I might want to use the target attribute on that menu item. I might have some menu items with long text but I might want to display some well known abbreviations while also put the full name as a title. I…

[image] SandorHQ: The gist is: why shouldn’t I have the ability to define as many custom data for a menu item I want? You should, but currently you cannot.

How to add a title attribute to menu items?

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