Menu / Further customizations

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That's basically all there's to it. Since the menus use standard Twig tags, we can enhance the lists with extra features, to automatically give special classes to the first or last item, or highlight the 'current' page.

Some of the more commonly used 'tricks' are:

• index-{{ loop.index }} - Add the current index of the loop, like index-1, index-2, etc.
• {% if loop.first %}first{% endif %} - Output first, but only for the first item in the loop.
• {% if loop.last %}last{% endif %} - Output last, but only for the last item in the loop.
• {% if item|current %}active{% endif %} - Output current, but only if we're on the page that the item links to.
• {% if item.title is defined %}title='{{ item.title|escape }}'{% endif %}
  • Add a title attribute, but only if it's defined in our .yaml-file, or if the ContentType has a subtitle field.
• {% if item.class is defined %}class='{{item.class}}'{% endif %} - Add a class attribute, but only it the item has a class defined in the .yaml-file.

See the default /bolt/templates/helpers/_sub_menu.twig file for an in-depth example of all of the things you can do with menus. Remember that you should always copy this file to your own theme folder, or create your own from scratch. If you modify the default file, it will most likely get overwritten when you update Bolt to a newer version.

Normally you will only need the basic properties of each of the menu items, but sometimes you might need to do more with the items. For this reason, each item has access to the entire record. You can use {{ item.record }} like you would use any other record. For instance, {{ item.record.taxonomy }}, or {{ dump(item.record) }}.