Help with spry menu

Question

  HI guys, very good forum! I am new to web design..
I am trying to build a web but i can not figure out how can get the menu button stay in diferent colour when is clicked and page changed.
I will give you examples
http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/
  Let say i inserted a spry menu bar horizontal and designed it how i like. What rule would i need to add to get buttons to stay the diferent colour when they are clicked/selected. Could you please help me wth that?
Thank you very much.
Roman

Answer 1

The way to make the button for the current page a different colour is to add an ID to the link, and create a separate style rule for it. For example, the following menu uses "here" as the ID to indicate the current page:
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
  <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#" id="here">Item 1</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Item 1.1</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Item 1.2</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Item 1.3</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
  <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Item 3.1</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Item 3.1.1</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Item 3.1.2</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="#">Item 3.2</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Item 3.3</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
</ul>
With the following rule in the style sheet, the first item is a rusty brown:
#here {
  background-color:#C60;