customizing menu items when MENU helper is used

[Vlad]

what would be the best way to specify a background color (different for each menu item, depending on some database-driven data) when I build the menu with menu.append(...) in menu.py? 

I would love to have something like this: 

menu.append([description, False, URL('catalog','regimen',args=[id]),[]],_style='background-color:red;')

but of course, this doesn't work this way - 

[Dave S]

I'd look at using _class instead of _style.  (_class defaults to 'web2py-menu web2py-menu-vertical')

/dps
 

[Eliezer (Vlad) Tseytkin]

It's not really about a menu as a whole (that would be easy). It's about dynamically changing the background color for each menu item individually. In this context I can't pass neither style nor class (in contrast with, for example a list helper where elements/options are made up of another helper and take class, style, and are fully configurable one at a time)... 

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[Dave S]

On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 5:13:31 AM UTC-7, Vlad wrote:

It's not really about a menu as a whole (that would be easy). It's about dynamically changing the background color for each menu item individually. In this context I can't pass neither style nor class (in contrast with, for example a list helper where elements/options are made up of another helper and take class, style, and are fully configurable one at a time)... 

maybe try set_attribute(), if you have the item?

/dps
 

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 2:48 AM Dave S <snide...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 3:09:24 PM UTC-7, Vlad wrote:

what would be the best way to specify a background color (different for each menu item, depending on some database-driven data) when I build the menu with menu.append(...) in menu.py? 

I would love to have something like this: 

menu.append([description, False, URL('catalog','regimen',args=[id]),[]],_style='background-color:red;')

but of course, this doesn't work this way - 

I'd look at using _class instead of _style.  (_class defaults to 'web2py-menu web2py-menu-vertical')

/dps
 

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