Umbraco-cms: Consider Adding an Active State for Expand (...) in the Top Section Navigation

[markadrake]

UI/UX Improvement
Umbraco v8+

If you were to log into the Umbraco v8 Backoffice you'd be presented with a top navigation, dark blue, consisting of all the sections you have been granted access to. For an administrator with access to them all, some sections may only be accessible through the expand (...) link.

My suggestion is that if such a section is currently active, that the expand link (...) should have the same active state as other sections.

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Here we have the content section, active by default: |
And if we have too many sections, they will be hidden behind the expand (...) menu link: |
And if we were to navigate to one of these sections, we lose the "active state" from before: |
I know this is a trivial, nit-picky, low-value ask – but I propose we apply an active state to the expand (...) menu item in this scenario: |

The solution I hope is simple:

1. Apply the current class to the expand (...) menu item if a child is currently active.
2. Update the CSS for the expand (...) link so that if the current class is applied, each dot matches the active color #f5c1bc and the opacity is set to 1.0.

[nathanwoulfe]

Not nit-picky at all, change provides important context to explain where-the-hell-am-I. UI should be consistent, this would make it so.

[nul800sebastiaan]

This makes total sense! If you or someone else reading along would like to pick it up, we'd be happy for the help! 👍

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[markadrake]

Thank you @nathanwoulfe & @nul800sebastiaan,

If in a few days nobody has picked this issue up and ran with it, I'd be happy to make the changes myself. I think this would be a good first-time issue for anyone who's looking to contribute to Umbraco, but for whatever reason hasn't. I'm also happy to provide guidance to them (if you are reading this and want to contribute just message me!).

If I haven't seen movement or interest by next week, count me in!

All the best,