Site is not highlighted in the top navigation bar

17 Sep, 2008

Site is not highlighted in the top navigation bar

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

We are currently customizing a site for a customer, and while doing it, our top navigation bar suddenly stopped highlighting currently selected sites.

The solution to my problem was simple: we modified top navigation manually and added some additional links to sites. If you are adding links to a subsite, it must be formated like this: “/site”. Do not use “/site/default.aspx” because this will cause the problem mentioned above.

If you have ever worked with top navigation bar on a large site, you probably noticed that it has some limitations. I personally like to use Site Navigation Tree Web Part by KwizCom. For complex scenarios you might also consider Telerik controls.

Tags: issues, navigation, SharePoint

Comments

1 | Jason

February 19th, 2009 at 9:42 am

Perfect – thanks!!

2 | Ewan

February 27th, 2009 at 8:23 am

The relative path fix doesn’t work if you have the Publishing feature enabled.

3 | Jason

February 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am

This solution worked for me. I had enabled the publishing features and then noticed the navigation bar not highlighting. As indicated in the solution, the links were pointing to “default.aspx” – removing that (and the trailing slash, as I recall) fixed this issue. Thanks!

4 | Col

November 3rd, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Where did you go to modify the navigation manually?

Thank you, I have trying to get this working for ages.

Regards
Colleen

5 | Toni Frankola

November 3rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm

@Colleen:

On MOSS: Go to Site Actions > Site Settings > Modify Navigation

On WSS: Site Actions > Site Settings > Top Link Bar

6 | Col

November 3rd, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Thanks Toni. Although I am assuming this will only work if you are wanting to navigate to default.aspx if you are wanting to navigate further down ‘the tree’ this isn’t going to be a solution?

7 | Toni Frankola

November 4th, 2009 at 3:32 am

@Colleen: Correct

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