The actions of commenting the CSS will indeed prevent the background-color attribute from being rendered. However it's not *solving* the problem, which is that "active-trail" is activated for the wrong path.<br>
<br>I am guessing that there are residual quirks due to the advice of <a href="http://drupal.org/node/678758">http://drupal.org/node/678758</a>. Perhaps duplicate/conflicting aliases. Short of manually inspecting the menu tables in the database, you might try deleting all related paths/aliases and menu items and starting over again.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:01 PM, James R Stone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fndtn357@gmail.com">fndtn357@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Setting your default front page to "node" makes the front page of the site</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">load a list of all nodes that are "promoted to front page."</span></font></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br></blockquote><font face="arial, sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
This is probably not what you want. You want instead the content of</blockquote></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font color="#114170" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://bartosandrini.com/home" target="_blank">http://bartosandrini.com/home</a></span></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> to appear as the front page of the site.</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font color="#114170" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><a href="http://bartosandrini.com/home" target="_blank">http://bartosandrini.com/home</a></span></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> is node 33. Therefore under</span></font></blockquote>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="arial, sans-serif">/admin/settings/site-</font>information, make the default front page this: node/33.</blockquote></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Then, in your primary links, set the path of the "Home" item to <front>.</blockquote></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Thanks for clarifying how using "node" behaves; I presumed this even though the previous advice I received in the forum said to use it anyway. I was too much of a newbie to disagree yet.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">The original problem about highlighting still exists. My active menu link, when I am at the root of the website, is not highlighted.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">So I am digging into the theme looking for overrides and active-trail. All I found was this in my stylesheet.css by TopNotchThemes.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">#primary-menu ul.menu li.active-trail {</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> background: #ad462b;</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> color: #fff;</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">}</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">#primary-menu ul.menu li.active-trail a {</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> background: #ad462b;</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> color: #fff;</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">}</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> and then, of course, the usual:</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">#primary-menu ul.menu li.active a, with a background color and font color</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">I am going to try to comment out the sections with active-trail in them and see what happens.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Do you have any other ideas about how to solve this?<br clear="all">
</span></font><br>-- <br><div class="im"><div>Best Regards,</div><div>James R Stone</div></div><div><a href="mailto:fndtn357@gmail.com" target="_blank">fndtn357@gmail.com</a></div><div class="im"><div><br></div><div><br>
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