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Menu Trails

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Submitted by Josh Koenig on March 16, 2008 - 1:59pm.
Brief Description: 
Adds some common sense improvements to the menu system
Drupal Project Page: 
http://drupal.org/project/menutrails
Type of Code: 
Module
Related Blog Posts: 
Navigation Usability Goodness: Menu Trails Module

This module adds some common-sense usability to Drupal’s menu system:

  • Menu Trails implements primary/secondary links which keep the current menu trail “active” or highlighted. A handy snippet ready to go into your template.php is included.
  • The module provides a means of broadly categorizing nodes (by type or taxonomy) as falling “under” a known menu item. These nodes are not added to the menu tree (keeping the menu admin system sane) but they will trigger the functionality above — preserving navigation state for the user — when viewed.