Top menu / horizontal navigation

[littleskink]

mmmm, dug a little more reckon I will forget the idea of horizontal navigation in Purity for now

it looks like a whole new learning curve to get this to work in a Dual Language site where the Main Menu module has to be left unpublished, shame as the template looked like a nice one but I dont have enough time left to devote to playing with it

[ramonsodoma]

Hello Phill,

The documentation is not quite clear as to how one can add a Menu Module to the header section. As with the previous poster, I tried all positions available to publish a secondary horizontal menu, but to no avail. Unfortunately, the ja-t3-blank template does not have a sample where a horizontal menu is displayed in the header. Only the mega-menu position, and only one menu can be chosen to be displayed there.

So, my question is what layout from a local theme do I have to modify to be able to add a Menu Module position to the header, that would stay above the header?

I managed to make a menu module show up above the search, which is not ideal, and I would need to add CSS styling to it. How can I make use of what's already available??

[phill luckhurst]

Usually you would copy the header.php file from the plugins blocks folder to the templates blocks folder and make your modifications there. Can you post an image detailing what you want to attempt and I will try and detail how to do that.

[ramonsodoma]

Hello all,

I have attached a sample that's close to what I'd like to do.
Of course, the menu above the header would be styled differently and should load a different menu.
I only managed to do this by adding <block name="mainnav1" type="mainnav" main-inner="2"></block> to my theme file.
However, it only loads the menu defined in the ja_t3_blank configuration options and I can't add other modules to the header, such as the top green bar.

seer.template.layout.png

[ramonsodoma]

Hello all,

I figured out, reading other posts and trying quite a few options until I got it going.
I added the following lines to my ja_t3_blank/local/etc/mylayout.xml, above the header position:

<block name="content-mass-top">gov-module</block>
<block name="content-mass">top-modules</block>

This adds 2 positions above the header as I wished... Never would have guessed that content-mass where the only ones to be used for this.

[phill luckhurst]

Excellent work and thanks for keeping us updated.

[gradeup]

Hello all,

I figured out, reading other posts and trying quite a few options until I got it going.
I added the following lines to my ja_t3_blank/local/etc/mylayout.xml, above the header position:

<block name="content-mass-top">gov-module</block>
<block name="content-mass">top-modules</block>

This adds 2 positions above the header as I wished... Never would have guessed that content-mass where the only ones to be used for this.

Thank you dear friend! Very helpful in solving this problem!