Questions tagged [menu]
In Joomla!, a Menu is a set of menu items used for website navigation. Each menu item defines an URL to a page on your site, and settings that control the contents(articles, category(ies) lists, tagged items, etc.) and style(module(s), layout) of that page.
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Joomla 4: How to add a main menu item to the article?
I've encountered a problem and I can't seem to solve it.
My articles are tied to subcategories.
In one menu item, I display a list of all articles. Let's call it [all-articles]. This is Blog layout.
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Joomla 4 Backend select menu item that "should" be active
My new component will have an Import View in the backend where the users are able to import db stuff.
Because there are multiple types like teams, players, locations, referees, ... the imports are ...
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Joomla Menu Module with a Menu Heading as the base item
I want to add a list of menu items, and I want it to dynamically populate. I thought I could just use the menu module. I want only the sub/child items from "preparations and repairs".
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URL System Links not working
I don't know if this is a bug or if this is something new with Joomla 4, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
In Joomla 2 and 3, I would create menu items of the URL System Links type that sent ...
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How can I remove front-end Edit button from side menus?
Since upgrading to Joomla 4 (currently 4.1.5, but also occurs in a test site with 4.2.2) an Edit button has appeared above each menu in the front-end sidebar. Previously in 3.10.10 the Edit option ...
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Article Show and Link to Article
I use the extension "Article Show" in Joomla 3
https://www.olwebdesign.com/joomla-extensions/article-show-joomla-module.html
I create a module "Last news" with the position "...
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How can I give pages URLs with two layers of slashes in them?
I have a page at www.website.com/page51 with 0 layers of slash items in the URL (only the website and the page alias) and I want to make it have two layers of slash items, as in www.website.com/layer1/...
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Selecting a menu type in a module
For module parameters -
how to select the type of menu and link, how is it implemented in the administrative part, when creating a new menu?
I will clarify.
I need to insert a link into the url(text) ...
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Joomla Menu image not displaying
Joomla menu image is not displaying on website. I believe I have it configured correctly but is not displaying.
Here is my configuration:
Here is what is displayed on the website:
Here is what I'm ...
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Pick and choose what categories are added to a menu in a categorylist
I am trying to create a menu in Joomla and want to pick and choose what categories are added in my categorylist menu. Now I can pick a parent category and it will list all sub categories, but what if ...
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CSS position: absolute doesn't display correctly on Amazon Fire tablet
I have a Joomla 3.9x website with a custom responsive menu. Each menu item in the top level has a pseudo ::before element displaying icons from a custom font. If the item is a menu separator, then the ...
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Append custom menu items to a fixed menu
Our product has a fixed set of menu items. I would like my users to be able to add items to the (main) menu, but I do not want them to change our fixed menu.
eg. fixed menu
Home MyCoMenu1 MyCoMenu2
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Will deleting a menu option delete the page that it links to?
I have inherited our Bowling centre's website from my previous manager and have found quite a mess of various menus which we do not need any more.
These menus refer to the annual tournament we ...
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Navbar: prevent two lines on smaller screens
I am using the Flex template and SPPage builder for my Joomla site. I have one annoying problem: When I resize the window to less than 1200 px, the navbar switches to two lines (e.g. iPad Pro ...
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Find Menu Item through Article Item?
I'm wondering if there's a way to see which Menu Item is associated with an Article.
I know this is easy from the Menu Item -> Article view, since Articles are assigned in Menu Items.
If I'm in an ...
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Menu Specifically For Super Users
Joomla 3.9.20
I allow users to register on my website, they automatically go into a group called 'Training', their parent group is Registered, see below;
- Registered
-- Training
I have created a '...
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Joomla 3.9 Child Sub Menu Not Showing
I am using a custom Joomla template called 'Portent' built by Joomlanauts -- a @SethWarburton creation.
The issue which I am facing is that the Sub-menu under my Child menu items are not showing for ...
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Is it possible to change the parent of a menu item at certain widths?
I have a horizontal main menu in which the last item is a dropdown containing further items.
Is it possible, as the screen width is reduced, to move items from the horizontal menu into the dropdown?
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Joomla blank page after migration?
I have Joomla 3.3.1 version
After migrating the web site to another host (with IIS server) I had a problem with blank pages when I click on a menu
The home page is displayed well, the problem is just ...
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No "Apply" button when attempting to duplicate an administrator menu
I tried to duplicate an administrator menu, but this is not possible due to a missing "apply" button.
Is there any settings or circumstances where this can happen?
I recorded a little gif to ...
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Confusion between links menu types and categories
I'm facing an issue with Joomla 3.9.16.
I have created many categories, with sub-categories ; here is my organisation :
I created corresponding menus and sub-menus to be able to put some modules ...
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Unwanted transform translate3d effect in menu
My (J3.9.16) website has a horizontally aligned mainmenu for larger screens.
It works fine on my iPad. If I tap on a parent item the child dropdown menu is displayed and if I tap the parent again, ...
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Define header CSS class if menu items have children
I am using two menu modules to display parent and children items in different locations in the website header. The simplified code below shows how it is written in index.php.
I am needing to check to ...
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Count modules function in template not working correctly
I have a split navigation module defined in my custom template. It is set to display submenu items under the main navigation when the parent item is active. The module itself displays correctly, but ...
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Get menu-meta_description from menu item
I need to add meta description inside a component page. That's what I tried:
$menu = $app->getMenu(); // Load the JMenuSite Object
$active = $menu->getActive(); // Load the Active Menu ...
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Is there any way to put subcategories in a Joomla menu?
I've been trying to change the way my website works. Currently, I have a menu that displays categories, but now I want to also display subcategories in it. I know that I can display articles of that ...
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Deleting obsolete menu types
While programming a Joomla extension, I experimented with Menu Types, however while editing/deleting/adding types in the default.xml it doesn't delete the previous ones.
So while I only have 1 menu ...
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How to enter relative (to current page) URL as a menu item?
I would like to be able to enter relative URLs (relative to the current page URL). I've tried the menu type URL (nested within System Links) but when I enter e.g. first it becomes /first and when I ...
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Mobile off canvas menu not working
I'm having difficulty getting the off canvas menu to work on a mobile view.
I am using a LT Social theme template, my web address is gracegarton.com.au
I had it working a week ago, but went to tweak ...
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Joomla 3.9: Menu item set to Separator is not clickable to reveal sub-menu items
I am building a website in Joomla, and I'm trying to make a menu in which some menu items should not have any article associated with it; clicking on them should only reveal the sub-menu items, but ...
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Trigger switch from main menu bar to offcanvas menu when main menu would break in two lines?
I have a website in three languages, so the main menu doesn't take the same space for all the languages. Because of that, the main menu gets broken up into two lines when the words in the main menu ...
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How to customize amount of columns in Joomla megamenu?
My website has a mega menu dropdown in the main menu which shows up nicely, but the problem is that I had to choose the design for six columns to be able to implement my five desired columns in the ...
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Make Search bar dynamically appear at top of body
One of our clients would like to have a search icon in their Main menu, which when clicked causes a search bar to appear at the top of the website's body. An example of this behaviour is at https://...
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Selecting the correct menu entry in a self written component
I have the following problem/setup:
I develop a custom component in Joomla that has multiple views. The views should have links to each other. If I enable SEF in the global configuration, the links in ...
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"Temporarily Unavailable" message when a menu alias contains "contact"
One of the websites we manage, http://wesleyunited.ca , recently started having a problem with menu aliases containing "contact" as a substring: clicking the menu just brings up an empty page that ...
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How to have article page use a template other than the one of its category?
Let's say I already have a menu_item_A set as a "category blog" page of category myblog, and the template associated with it is templateA. When I go to this page and click one of the articles, if ...
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Disabling Menu Recovery Mode for user groups
I'm actually trying to get two administration level for my Joomla Website.
The first is the standard Super User with the standard admin menu
The second is a "Communication Admin" with only some items ...
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Article URL in Blog format adds suffix to menu separator
Main navigation items are separators and all active navigation are sub-level menu items.
The Main menu works perfectly but, say, navigating to the blog all the active title links add a "-2" suffix to ...
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Why is my JOOMLART UBER navigation menu displayed incorrectly on iPad in landscape mode?
The navigation menu on all devices tested works as expected in portrait and in landscape mode, except on one of our iPads.
This issue can be observed with an older iPad. With the newer ones, or with ...
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Category blog on homepage: how to open detail article as part of a different menu item?
Following scenario:
i published 2 separate main menu items: "Home" & "News"
for "home": i got a category blog published as homepage menu item showing the latest 3 articles tagged as category "...
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IceMegaMenu dropdown on mobile
I am using iceMegaMenu and dropdown menu features.
I have a one dropdown, which is working fine, but I have a problem with displaying it on mobile phones.
It's by default expanded, but I want to ...
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Can't access all administrator menus and menu labels have weird symbols
I am trying to migrate a Joomla website from server A to my server B. Everything seems to be working fine, except my administrator side / backend has the following issues:
I am not able to access all ...
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Gantry5 framework - Where are the core particles located?
I am trying to customize my Gantry5 Header and Menu. I searching for the menu particle but I can't find in my template.
Where is the core menu particle located?
Some extra info about what I am ...
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"JRoute::_" generating two different urls for same link
So I have this weird problem.
I am calling
JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_example&view=foo&layout=bar')
..from two different view-layouts. And Joomla! is generating different SEF-URL ...
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Joomla menu item has "com-akeeba" embedded in the url
I am adding a new menu item to my Joomla 2.5 site (can't upgrade to Joomla! 3 due to old version of PHP).
I am adding the menu item "Download" at the top level of the main menu. The url ends up being ...
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How to remove menu parent from url?
The Joomla menu system includes the menu's parent name in the URL structure for sub-menu items as follows:
https://www.mysite.com/parent/page
I'd like to remove the parent directory from the url as ...
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Trying to locate a menu file that is not into the Menus Manager
I am trying to locate a Menu that is not located in the Menu Manager.
The website is: http://wholechild.it
The menu I am trying to locate is the ABOUT US. It doesn't seem to be created same as the ...
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How do I override mod_menu and add classes to child li-elements?
For a website, I use the stylesheet theme.css in my default template where the menu style is defined in classes like .dropdown-menu and so on.
My question is now: How do I apply those classes to my ...
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How to create a vertical indented menu?
I've been asked to create a sub-navigation page which would list all the links which are in a products page sections menu. The display needs to look like this:
Product Section 1
sub-1
sub-2
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unwanted categories and pages shown on the website
pages like this open in my site and won't throw 404 page:
> https://www.farafan-market.ir/component/content/article?id=242:
> https://www.farafan-market.ir/component/content/category/175-other
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