Multilevel navigation menu (accordion menu) with links

[Atrisa Milani, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Hi everyone. I have a vertical navigation portlet (accordion menu) with menus and submenus. Some of the menus have no submneus and some do. So I have three cases in my navigation:
1) The menu is a link to a page and has no submenus.
2)The menu is both a link to a page and has submenus and finally
3) the menu is not a link but only has submenus to be toggled down at click.

I have been able to do the first and third cases with jQuery, but for the second one I am stuck; that is how to control the menu to go to a page and at the same time toggle down the submenus. Is this possible to do with Liferay or scriipting is the only to do this?

[David H Nebinger, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

Not sure how your menu is implemented, but the standard Liferay menu bar handles items 1 and 2. Adding #3 to it is possible, but it''s easier just to make them links to the '#' url and let Liferay handle them entirely.

[Atrisa Milani, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

So in Liferay is it possible for a menu to link to a page and at the same time slide down its submenus? For example, on google's news page, here: http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn, when one clicks the sports menu, it goes to a page and at the same time shows the submenus as well. As far as I know, this is not possible with Liferay, unless some scripting is done, or am I wrong?

Also, is there any documenation that would explain the options in the Navigation portlet setup? What I mean is that for example in a navigation portlet settings there are options such as 'Root Layout ' and 'Root Layout Level', what do those exactly refer to?
Thanks!

[David H Nebinger, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

You can simulate the google thing using an accordion-based menu on the left and content area on the right. use IPC and AJAX so the content area is refreshed w/o doing a full page submit.

Not much doco that I know of, but I can tell you that the google-like thing is definitely not covered.

[Atrisa Milani, modificado 12 Anos atrás.]

I got that working with jQuery. Liferay does most of the part, but for the toggling and disabling some of the links jQuery did it nicely. Thanks David for your comments.

[Global Base, modificado 11 Anos atrás.]

hi Atrisa,
can you post an example of your jquery solution integrated with Naviagation portlet native in liferay?
i should be very glad for that... thank you.
francesco