Configuring the Menu Module

This tutorial is a continuation of the Add Menu Item tutorial .

Once you have created, and added menu items to your new Joomla! menu, you will need to use the Joomla! Module Manager to configure the Menu Module settings.

The Module Manager can be accessed from the Joomla! toolbar:

Extensions > Module Manager

Once you have opened the Module Manager, locate your menu module by finding its name under the 'Module Name' heading, and either click the module name, or check the box to its left, and click the 'Edit' icon near the top right hand side of the page.

Configuring the Module Details - Title: The Title should be prepopulated with the Module Title entered when you created the New Menu. You can change the name by modifying the value of this field. - Show Title: Select whether or not to display the Module Title when the Menu is displayed. - Enabled: Select whether the Menu Module is Enabled or not. The value must be set to 'Yes' if you want it to appear on your Joomla! web site. - Position: Select the Module Position from the list of available positions (set in the Joomla! Template). This will determine where the Menu will appear when the page is displayed.

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- Order: Select the order in which the Menu Module will be displayed among the other modules configured within the Position selected above. - Access Level: Select which users will be able to view the menu; Public allows any user to view the menu, Registered will require the user to be logged in to view the menu, Special allows you to specify which users can view the menu. - ID: This is the internal module ID and can not be modified. - Description: This is a description of what the module does, and can not be modified.

Configuring the Module Menu Assignment

The Menu Assignment section allows you to select which menu items will display this Menu Module, the Default value is All Menus. - Menus: Select which Menu Items will display the Menu Module when they are viewed. - All: Show in All Pages - None: Show on No Pages - Select Menu Item(s) from the List: Select the pages from the 'Menu Selection' list to display the Menu Module on - Menu Selection: This is a list of menus configured in your Joomla! web site. The list will be read-only unless the 'Select Menu Item(s) from the List' selection above is selected.

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Configuring the Menu Module Parameters - Menu Name: This is the Unique Name entered when the menu was created. The current selection will be the menu you are configuring, you do not need to change this value. - Menu Style: Select the style to use for displaying the menu. The default (List) will display the menu using an Unordered List (<ul></ul>) (X)HTML element. - Start Level: For nested lists, this setting will determine at which level of nesting to begin displaying the Menu Items. - End Level: For nested lists, this setting will determine at which level of nexting to stop displaying the Menu Items. - Always show sub-menu Items: For nested lists, this setting will determine whether or not to always display sub items for the menu, regardless of whether the parent item is active (selected) or not. - Target Postion: This item contains information for positioning a JavaScript pop-up window.

Configuring the Menu Module Advanced Parameters - Show Whitespace: Select whether or not whitespace will be displayed when the menu output is rendered. - Caching: Select whether to cache (store) the content of this Menu Module. - Menu Tag ID: Enter a value to assign as the id property of the root <ul> tag when the Menu is displayed. - Menu Class Suffix: Enter a CSS class suffix to be used to allow adding styles to this Menu independently. - Module Class Suffix: Enter a CSS class suffix to be used to allow individual styling for this Menu Module. - Maximum Menu Depth: This sets the maximum depth before menu items are ignored due to the fact that they have absent parent items.

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