Mega Menu Text

[feemish]

Is it possible to have a different (shorter) text for the Mega Menu than the Section name in its entirety.

I have quite long section names wchich work well in terms of SEO as they are in <h1> tags at the top of each page...
But they are rather long for the Meag Menu.

So is there a way of editing the Mega Menu text to shorter versions of the section names?

[NormanRouxel]

Create a new Section level Variable - "ShortSectionName", type Text, Allow Blank, uncheck Use Parent.

For your troublesome Sections set ShortSectionName to a more concise description.

Edit all the Mega Menu layouts and replace every (there are many):

<actinic:variable encoding="actinic" name="SectionName" selectable="false" />

With:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ShortSectionName%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22%22"><actinic:variable encoding="actinic" name="SectionName" selectable="false" /></actinic:block><actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ShortSectionName%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" ><actinic:variable encoding="actinic" name="ShortSectionName" selectable="false" /></actinic:block>

This will use the usual Section Name if ShortSectionName is empty. If ShortSectionName is defined, this will be used instead.

[feemish]

Wow thanks Norman, that sounds perfect. I'll try that out tomorrow!

[feemish]

Works a treat !

I only found 3 instances but it seems to work ok.

Mega Menu Layout
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Mega Menu More Section Links
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[NormanRouxel]

There are also a couple in Mega Menu Sub Section Links.

[feemish]

ahhh thanks..

That layout wasnt showing in my design tree... on the design page
I had to go to the design library to find it.

Thanks


Mega Menu Layout
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Mega Menu More Section Links
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Mega Menu Sub Section Links
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[feemish]

Hi Norman, Do you (or anyone else!) know how I would make the top level Mega Menu text bold?
I am using your 'short name' method above to have custom mega menu text.
I tried !!<<b>>!! !!<</b>>!! in the custom 'short name' field but that didnt work.

[NormanRouxel]

Click the Design tab, then the Current Stylesheet button. At the very end add:

#mega-menu > ul > li > a {font-weight:bold;}

[feemish]

Perfect! Thanks Norman