menus in sidebar - discussion, recapitulation

[Jimmi08]

Bootstrap4 famous cards and sidebar

• there is needed some identification that menu is special ul/li list. Reason - bootstrap cards for the list are different than for normal text content. And only some type of cards.

Overview of options:

1. you use for menu nav version for ul/list. Example:

$NEWS_MENU_TEMPLATE['category']['start']       = '<ul class="nav flex-column news-menu-category">';
$NEWS_MENU_TEMPLATE['category']['end']         = '</ul>';
$NEWS_MENU_TEMPLATE['category']['item']        = '
    <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="{NEWS_CATEGORY_URL}">{NEWS_CATEGORY_TITLE} {NEWS_CATEGORY_NEWS_COUNT}</a></li>
';

Tablestyle:

  if($style == 'menu')
    {  
    echo '<div class=" mb-4">';
        if(!empty($caption))
        {
          echo '<h5 >'.$caption.'</h5>';
        }
    echo $text; 
    echo '</div>';
    return;
  } 

There is no problem in this case.

2. you can "fake" cards with this solution too

There is no problem in this case.

3. problem starts when you want to use this look for lists: (recommended by bootstrap)

Then you need to change style inside tablestyle function (different styles for lists and other content)

Different areas are only part solution (first text menus, second lists).

This has to be decided by theme author but they need information that menu is list.