Keep submenu open when navigating to new page

[digitalsigi]

Hi Chris, Thx for your work, I use some of your packages and want now to work with menu. I my situation, it seem to be a litte more complicated. To be able to use browse back button with pagination I decided to implement navigation through url, e.g. http//mylongindex/5 goes to page 5. This works fine and even for opening detail views and so on. However with submenus it seems tricky to keep them open when a new page is displayed, because obviously the initial state is closed and thus submenu is closed. Question: How to keep the submenu open across pages?

[chrissainty]

If you're not reloading the whole application, then the state of the menu should be maintained between page changes. Is the whole app reloading when you change pages?

[digitalsigi]

If you're not reloading the whole application, then the state of the menu should be maintained between page changes. Is the whole app reloading when you change pages?

Hmmm, good question, I believe yes, cause I fire navigateto(...). In the meantime I found this https://brianlagunas.com/lets-learn-blazor-managing-state-in-blazor-fail/ which pointed back to your packages. So I guess, I need to maintain the state between pages. I'll dig into this and when I find a solution I'll post it.

[chrissainty]

Using NavigateTo shouldn't cause a page refresh unless you're using the forceReload option. Can you share the code for changing pages?

[digitalsigi]

OK, I think I found the reason: I was playing with non existing pages just to try BlazoredMenu. Consequently I ended up at what is defined in app.razor and this closes - for whatever reason - the menu. As soon as I navigate to existing pages, everything worked as expected. I guess: case closed. This is how my app.razor looks:

<Router AppAssembly="@typeof(Program).Assembly">
    <Found Context="routeData">
        <AuthorizeRouteView RouteData="@routeData" DefaultLayout="@typeof(MainLayout)" />
    </Found>
    <NotFound>
        <CascadingAuthenticationState>
            <LayoutView Layout="@typeof(MainLayout)">
                <p>Da gibt's leider nichts.</p>
            </LayoutView>
        </CascadingAuthenticationState>
    </NotFound>
</Router>

May be there are better solutions, but in this special case I don't care. Thx for careing.

[chrissainty]

No worries, glad we worked it out.