Left Menu

MaxWiki can use dynamic left menus that highlight the menu item corresponding to the current page (like the one on this page).

To use a left menu, simply add a bullet list with class="left_menu". The source will look like:

 <ul  class="left_menu">
    <li class="submenu"><a href="/About Us">About Us</a></li>
    <li><a href="/Team">Team</a></li>
    <li><a href="/Contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>

Note that after creating the list, you will need to add class="left_menu" to the ul tag and add class="submenu" to the first li item.

Advanced Matching

Normally, the menu item corresponding to the page name is selected. However, suppose you have a dog rescue site and want to show the many dogs you have successfully placed in homes. At first, this might all fit on one page but over time, you have arranged adoptions for so many dogs that you want to separate the list onto several pages. Maybe the pages are:

• Adopted
• Adopted 1
• Adopted 2

Normally the left menu item "Adopted" would only be selected for the "Adopted" page and not "Adopted 1" or "Adopted 2". To get around this, add an ID to the menu item link by right-clicking on it and selecting Edit Link -> Advanced -> Id and typing "adopted". This is a case insensitive regular expression that will be used to match against the page names. So now, whenever any of the Adopted pages is shown, the Adopted menu item will be selected.