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In my site i have a navbar which is created by using the new feature of wordpress 3 - "the menus ".In my site this navbar conatins both categories and pages.

When I'm in a single post / sub-page , the navbar doesn't give the parent category /page the class of "current-menu-item" and therefore that item in the navbar is not highlighted.

I found this but it really doesn't help me because the menu is not built on

category_ID like a regualr navbar created by wp_categories_list(), but on item_ID , which I don't understand how is generated.

I would like to know either how the item_ID is generated, and/or how to highlight the right item in the navbar

Here is a printscreen of my navbar's HTML

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and here is a printscreen of navbar created by wp_categories_list()

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thanks!!

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  • Is the current-menu-item or current-page-item class not what you're looking for?
    – prettyboymp
    Commented Dec 23, 2010 at 13:35
  • You are seeking to highlight the top most parent element when the current page is direct descendent, correct? I'd like to know this answer to. OT: I wish WP did not add all those 'menu-item menu-item type-post_type' redundant classes!
    – Scott B
    Commented Dec 23, 2010 at 16:22

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The filter you need is nav_menu_css_classes. You should be able to test for *in_category* on single post and archive pages, and add the appropriate class there.

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  • That feeling when I find my own answer from two years ago, and its wrong. Ugh. The filter is actually named nav_menu_css_class.
    – goldenapples
    Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 20:51
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You can style this classes,

"current-cat" "current-menu-item" "current-page-item"

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