Drupal 6: Having a menu where more than one Item is active

Question

I'm trying to build a menu where a node can be a child of more than one item. That's not really an issue because Drupal 6 can handle it. However only one parent menu item will be active.

It's some sort of a portfolio where a client-node can be a child of photography and design and when the page of the node is opened the entry for photography and for design should be active.

Does anyone have an idea?

Answer 1

Drupal has built in the assumption that only only one item in a single menu can be active.

You hack the core menu system or create your own, but both would not be recommended.

The best workaround I can think of, is to expend the menu and use css and JavaSript to show/hide the menus and mark them as active. This could be doable but might be quite hard if you have a complex menu structure.