Redirecting mainnav buttons to wiki page breaks "active" highlight

[rsm@…]

I've modified some of my Mainnav buttons as per the TracInterfaceCustomization page. Both my Timeline and Roadmap button now link to a wikipage. When I use these buttons the Wiki button is highlighted instead of the Timeline or Roadmap button.

I use IE 7.0 and can't test other browsers as this is a work pc.
Following is the trac.ini change I made for the mainnav:

#added for custom menu
[mainnav]
wiki.label = Home
timeline.label = Documentation
timeline.href = /wiki/Documentation
roadmap.label = Community
roadmap.href = /wiki/Community

[Christian Boos]

This is of course not a browser-specific issue, rather a current limitation of the feature: when redirecting to a wiki page, it's effectively the wiki module which will handle the page and therefore it's the Wiki tab which will get highlighted.

Ideas for a fix welcomed.

[rsm@…]

I would suggest making it clear somewhere that the buttons represent modules as oppposed to pages (maybe this is already explained somewhere, but my rtfm session didn't result in any mention of this). I suppose if I changed the label back from home to wiki, the active marker would at least make sense.

Perhaps something similar to how ​TocMacro works could be implemented? I don't really know anything about the way Trac is structured so I do not think I can suggest anything more substantial.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Moving this forward since I don't think it needs to be fixed on 0.12-stable, but please comment if you feel differently.

There is a PoC in log:rjollos.git:t6724. If the navigation item has an href property, a request to any path that starts with href will result in the navigation item highlighted. If we need to be more precise, we could have an active_href attribute that support regexes, but I think this is good enough to cover most cases.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Moved ticket assigned to next-stable-1.0.x since maintenance of 1.0.x is coming to a close. Please move the ticket back if it's critical to fix on 1.0.x.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Milestone renamed