Trying to get Hugo to mark active menu entry using the example from https://gohugo.io/templates/menu-templates/ But I couldn’t get it working. It seems that $currentPage.HasMenuCurrent and $currentPage.IsMenuCurrent are never true … :thinking: I tested also by adding (to my nav.html partial): …

[image] flips: Any hints on what I can do to check? Can it be related to multilingual setup? Create a small project without multilingual, and with only a few pages of content, and see if your menu works.

Tried real quick on an earlier pre-multilingual version of the same site. Did not work here either. :thinking: (“My” menu is copied directly from the Hugo doc example …) Can I turn on debugging and get more info from the build, maybe?

Thank you! It seems that if I move the menu definition away from config.toml and into the front matter for each content file, the tests work! And adding sectionPagesMenu = "main" to get the sections automatically. (Can I hide a section then I have this enabled?) :smile:

Interestingly, I seem to only get IsActive for the sections themselves when I use sectionPagesMenu. If I don’t use sectionPagesMenu and instead define section menu entries in _index.md for each section, then the IsActive method return true only for sub pages of each section, not for the section its…

Won't pickup .HasMenuCurrent or .IsMenuCurrent

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zwbetz April 27, 2019, 5:29pm 4

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Won't pickup .HasMenuCurrent or .IsMenuCurrent

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