If you do the rules right, you won't loose the mouseover. Say you're selecting based on the a element having the active class:

a.active { // This will become your active color. Set it to the same as the regular color a color if you don't want a different color.
color:

}

a.active:hover { // Your hover color. To keep it the same as hover, set it to what the other hovers are.
  color:
}

You've also got the :active selector the browser uses, as well as :visited. Those colors depend upon the browser, unless specified in the stylesheet, which is why it's a good idea to reset them in your theme.



Jamie Holly
http://hollyit.net
On 1/3/2014 1:37 PM, Philip_Wetzel@nhd.uscourts.gov wrote:
Hmm, I'm not giving up on the idea of creating a rule just yet.    I
created a rule to throw up a warning on
page init (something like that).    So, I have the "when" to do it figured
out.  You can see that the "Court Info"
"a" tag has the "active" class assigned to it.    Looks like I just need to
get rid of the class assignment
(make it class="").   so it looks like the Jury-info <a href one below it.

I can make the active color same as the non-active color, but then I would
loose the mouse over
color change.     I know my client would not like that at the least.

Nancy, by menu block you mean what I'm showing under "filing without an
Attorney"?
Thanks all!
Phil
PS:Hope the screenshot comes out OK.  I'm a Lotus notes rookie.

(Embedded image moved to file: pic29358.gif)



From:	Nancy Wichmann <nan_wich@bellsouth.net>
To:	"support@drupal.org" <support@drupal.org>,
Date:	01/03/2014 12:56 PM
Subject:	Re: [support] Using <front> for Path in a menu link
Sent by:	support-bounces@drupal.org



This is a long-running issue in Drupal, with no perfect solution. Using
<front> may work for you, but I doubt it. There are some modules that
address this (I'll leave the search to you). What I did in the past was to
put a small text on a page that says "Here's what you can find in this
section" and then include a menu block for the sub-menu of the main item.

Nancy

 From: "Philip_Wetzel@nhd.uscourts.gov"
 My client wants to have no landing page if the user clicks on any of the
 top level menu links. Specifying <front> for the path works perfectly,
 except the color of the
 menu becomes the "selected" color (same as mouse over).--
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