# Dynamic Menu **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [July 25, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-menu/99845 "2006-07-25T22:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jake)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-menu/99845/1 "2006-07-25T22:15:56Z")
I am new to radiant and although I really like it I am struggeling with this. I want to build a dynamic side nav am running into the following issues. - When I use this code unless\_url doesn’t seem to match the url to the page. I would really like to you \ here but I don’t want to hard code the navigation values I want them to be generated from a parent node. Any help would be appriciated. ---
**Author:** ![jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jake)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-menu/99845/2 "2006-07-25T23:19:33Z")
Jake wrote: > I am new to radiant and although I really like it I am struggeling with > this. I want to build a dynamic side nav am running into the following > issues. Looks like unless\_url expects only a literal regular expression in “matches”; it doesn’t expand any tags in its argument. (I’m not sure anything in Radiant does.) So there’s no way to do what you want with pure tags at the moment. Can’t you still use your same code inside an r:navigation tag, though? Also, I’m a few days away from releasing 0.1 of SlickTabs (they’re style-ish!), which will auto-create accessible, graphical CSS rollover tabs based on anything you can do that generates a sequence of tags. You can see the graphical part in action at [http://www.wellesleycarriagehouse.com](http://www.wellesleycarriagehouse.com), and the rollovers are coming soon. It may be too much for your purpose, but let me know if you want to alpha-test it. Jay L. ---
**Author:** ![jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jake)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-menu/99845/3 "2006-07-26T00:17:40Z")
Jay L. wrote: > Jake wrote: > > > I am new to radiant and although I really like it I am struggeling with > > this. I want to build a dynamic side nav am running into the following > > issues. > > Looks like unless\_url expects only a literal regular expression in > “matches”; it doesn’t expand any tags in its argument. (I’m not sure > anything in Radiant does.) So there’s no way to do what you want with > pure tags at the moment. > > Can’t you still use your same code inside an r:navigation tag, though? > > Also, I’m a few days away from releasing 0.1 of SlickTabs (they’re > style-ish!), which will auto-create accessible, graphical CSS rollover > tabs based on anything you can do that generates a sequence of tags. > You can see the graphical part in action at > [http://www.wellesleycarriagehouse.com](http://www.wellesleycarriagehouse.com), and the rollovers are coming > soon. It may be too much for your purpose, but let me know if you want > to alpha-test it. > > Jay L. Thanks Jay, I tried to loop over the \ but that didn’t seem to work either. That tag needs to have a hard coded value for the “urls” attriubte it seems. Thanks for the feedback, when you get your tabs packaged up I would be stoked to get a look at it. Jake ---
**Author:** ![jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jake)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-menu/99845/4 "2006-07-26T03:55:36Z")
On 26/07/2006, at 7:17 AM, Jake wrote: > > > \ > > > attriubte it seems. Thanks for the feedback, when you get your tabs > > > packaged up I would be stoked to get a look at it. Have you thought of modifying the \ to take a parent url instead of a list? I’ll need the same thing here, but i’ve got too many other things to get through first! Bodhi ---
**Author:** ![jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jake)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dynamic-menu/99845/5 "2006-07-26T05:18:04Z")
bodhi wrote: > On 26/07/2006, at 7:17 AM, Jake wrote: > > > > > \ > > > > attriubte it seems. Thanks for the feedback, when you get your tabs > > > > packaged up I would be stoked to get a look at it. > > Have you thought of modifying the \ to take a parent url > instead of a list? I’ll need the same thing here, but i’ve got too many > other things to get through first! > > Bodhi I have not jumped into the code yet but if I do I will be sure to come back here with the code.