Why IsMenuCurrent and HasMenuCurrent need two arguments?

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1

We already range through the menu, why do both arguments need to mention the menu name again instead of relying on the dot for context?

2

That’s a good question. Each menu entry has a .Menu method, so it knows to which menu object it belongs. These two are, as far as I can tell, equivalent:

{{ $currentPage := . }}
{{ range site.Menus.main }}
  {{ $currentPage.IsMenuCurrent .Menu . }}  --> returns true/false
{{ end }}

{{ $currentPage := . }}
{{ range site.Menus.main }}
  {{ $currentPage.Eq .Page }}  --> returns true/false
{{ end }}
3

This is brilliant! I have been doing it like below requiring mentioning the menu again, hence my question (and again the versatility of Hugo)

{{ $currentPage := . }}
{{ range site.Menus.main }}
  {{ $currentPage.IsMenuCurrent "main" . }} 
{{ end }}
4

Yeah, definitely cleaner. This is used in both the example in the documentation, and in the partial when creating a skeleton theme (e.g., hugo new theme foo or hugo new theme foo --themesDir .).

5

I adopted this in my menu recently though the Issue I had is it required duplicating the Tailwind classes I used for the dict part since the styles were not applied in the three states (see below).

{{- define "partials/inline/menu/walk.html" }}
  {{- $page := .page }}
  {{- range .menuEntries }}
    {{- $attrs := dict "href" .URL }}
    {{- if $page.IsMenuCurrent .Menu . }}
      {{- $attrs = merge $attrs (dict "class" "text-md bg-blue-450 dark:bg-blue-650 relative block cursor-pointer font-bold text-white md:border-r md:border-r-white/[.1] md:px-5" "aria-current"  (i18n "aria-current")) }}
    {{- else if $page.HasMenuCurrent .Menu .}}
      {{- $attrs = merge $attrs (dict "class" "text-md bg-blue-450 dark:bg-blue-650 relative block cursor-pointer font-bold text-white md:border-r md:border-r-white/[.1] md:px-5" "aria-current" "true") }}
      {{- else }}
      {{- $attrs = merge $attrs (dict "class" "text-md hover:bg-blue-450 relative block cursor-pointer font-bold text-slate-200 transition-all delay-0 duration-300 ease-out hover:text-white dark:text-slate-300 md:border-r md:border-r-white/[.1] md:px-5") }}
    {{- end }}
6

Use a var instead of string for the duplicated classes.

7

Awesome! I added the else part to style the menu in its default state. Otherwise only the other two were styled. Adding the styles to the anchor element overrides the dict values.