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django-menus is an app that provides some useful template helpers for rendering and handling menus within django projects.

To use in in your django project, it needs to be installed:

$ pip install django-menus

And "menus" needs to be in your settings.INSTALLED_APPS.

menu_item

An inclusion template tag that will create a single instance of a menu item, which will only be rendered if the logged in user can access the referenced view. Secondly, the currently active view will have a CSS class of active in it’s menu item.

{% load menu_item %}

{% menu_item "/foo/" "Foo" %}
{% menu_item "/bar/" "Bar" %}
{% menu_item "http://example.com" "Baz" %}

If we were viewing /foo/, this renders to:

<a class="active" href="/foo/">Foo</a>
<a href="/bar/">Bar</a>
<a href="http://example.com">Baz</a>

Using the standard template. If you want, you can override the menus/item.html template to change the display format.

You may also pass in a string like "url:foo_name" to the first argument. This will do a reverse('foo_name') call (with no args or kwargs) to find a matching url.

If the menu item title is 'home' (case insensitive), or the url path is '/', then an exact match will be required to mark it as active, otherwise a prefix match is done. This means that if you had a menu item as above, and were viewing the url /foo/bar/, then the first menu_item would be marked as active.

tree_menu

An extension to django-mptt, this is a template that you can use to have a dynamic tree menu, where selecting items with children expands them, and selecting a leaf node follows the link. To use it, you’ll need to have mptt installed into your project as well as this package.

You use it like:

{% load mptt_tags %}

{% block tree_menu %}
  {% full_tree_for_model app_label.ModelName as menu %}
  {% include "menu/tree-menu.html" %}
{% endblock %}

If you want it to dynamically hide/show nested data, then you will want to have:

<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}menus/js/tree-menu.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}menus/style/tree-menu.css"
      type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">

Somewhere in your page.

This part is currently in use in one small part of a project, and may change if I start to use it more. This README is a little light on because I haven’t touched this code in a long, long time.

Changes

1.1.2 - Python 3 support

1.1.1 - Pass through args and kwargs to the test function if it accepts them.

1.0.9 - Allow for adding classes, and buttons as menu items.

1.0.8 - Allow for absolute urls, ie, pointing to another server. We never try to validate these for permission to view, it is assumed the user can.

1.0.7 - Change how version number is stored. Include a new li-item.html template, and refactor how the template is found. Check func_code exists before accessing it. Refactor some of the handling of paths. Better handle quoting issues.

1.0.6 - Documentation fix only.

1.0.5 - Actually install all of the static media/templates.

1.0.4 - Don’t fail on install if README.md missing.

1.0.3 - Repackaged to include README.rst [Thanks to John Bazik jsb@cs.brown.edu]

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