I'm not even sure how to word this question. I'm using ATO 3.4.7 and I want to keep the parent page on the menu bar highlighted in my color scheme when the user is on a sub page.

Let's say my main menu bar consists of pages A,B,C with 1,2,3 sub-pages under each. Currently, when I'm on page A-->2, only the 2 is highlighted while A remains blank. I understand this logic but it can be confusing for viewers. Are there any fixes? Thanks for your help.

-Wilford

I know of no way to do what you want and suspect the the conditional logic to accomplish it would be "interesting" and most likely time consuming.

I'm still a newbie, so your post is helpful in pointing me in a direction but it's not entirely clear to me. You're saying that I can style the .current_page_ancestor class in the css insert section to change colors? Am I on the right track here? Thanks for your help.

Would be great if .current_page_parent and .current_page_ancestor could be introduced in a future revision of the theme.
It would greatly improve the usability of the theme.

Please try the BUGFIX 353-01 in the New Versions, & Updating forum for version 3.5.3

I've just tried the fix because I tried all afternoon to get my CSS inserts to work and it fixed that , but without the inserts, the parent item is not highlighted.

There is a bug in the WordPress menu where it will assign the class 'current-page-parent' to multiple items (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14560)

use 'current-menu-parent'.

What I meant when I said

Would be great if .current_page_parent and .current_page_ancestor could be introduced in a future revision of the theme.

was that it would be great if Atahualpa could automatically do that based on the style we chose for the parent item, without having to use CSS inserts.
We would define the "parent" CSS in WP and current-menu-ancestor would be used to apply that style to the parent elements at every level.


Regarding the bug you mention, I'm not experiencing it with the ata theme.
Here is my hierarchy:
A
-B
A
-B
-B
--C
--C
-B
A
A

And here are the classes I have (minus the menu/page-item-xxx):
Level A item, parent of level B and level C items

rMenu-expand menu-item menu-item-type-post_type current-menu-ancestor current_page_ancestor

Level B

menu-item menu-item-type-post_type

Level B item, parent of level C item

rMenu-expand menu-item menu-item-type-post_type current-menu-ancestor current-menu-parent current_page_parent current_page_ancestor

Level C item selected

menu-item menu-item-type-post_type current-menu-item page_item current_page_item

"current-menu-parent" cannot be used in this case, because it doesn't exist in level A.
"current-menu-ancestor" is placed exactly where it should and can be used to highlight the parents of the selected item.

The "problem" I'm having now is that Atahualpa highlights every sub-element of a chosen menu item using what we've defined in WP as the parent style and the same happens when using inserts for current-menu-ancestor. But I guess that's more of a CSS problem.

The "problem" I'm having now is that Atahualpa highlights every sub-element of a chosen menu item using what we've defined in WP as the parent style and the same happens when using inserts for current-menu-ancestor. But I guess that's more of a CSS problem.

It's not a CSS problem, it is the way CSS works (the C stands for cascading) when ever you set a style to an element, all the sub elements under it get that style unless they have their own style. When you start dealing with menus, it gets complicated which is why there are more than 400 lines of CSS dealing with the Atahualpa menu structure.

Now suddenly WP has added a whole new set of classes to the mix and the ability to mix categories and pages and outside links together. Atahualpa was build where pages were in the page menu and categories are in the category menu.

but now they can be mixes and this is going to lead to issues.

here is an example. I set a page parent to have the color red, I set a category parent to have the color blue. I create a wp menu with a page and add a sub menu item which is a category. if I click on the category, should the parent be red or blue?

The new wp menu structure has added a whole new class of questions and issues (and WP bugs) HOWEVER, you can code CSS Inserts to structure and set the colors anyway you want. And maybe some day Atahualpa will give the tools to do it in a theme option, who knows.

That's what I meant . The classes are in place, I "just" have to manually restyle the entire menu myself.
Is there a way to turn off the Atahualpa menu CSS?

Well you could go into CSS.php and remove all the code relating to menus

I'll check it out. Thank you.