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This is absolutely driving me nuts and there’s probably a simple answer staring me in the face. I’m using Sanidine II light

On any page on my site, including article pages, I want the parent menu item of that page to always show up as the active item.

The problem is that a menu item is only active when you’re actually on the page. I want it to be an active parent item of any submenu or any other child item.

So for instance I’m running a news site, and my main nav includes items like, World, Business, Sports, Tech, etc.

Now when I click World, it’ll take me into the world news page, and the ‘World’ link on the main nav will be active highlighted in accordance to how I’ve styled it in the CSS.

Now if I click anything in that World news section, like Europe, it’ll take me to the European news section, which is itself a submenu whose parent menu is World.
However ‘World’ is no longer the active item, even though it is the parent item of the submenu. Any subsequent articles under the European news section will have the same problem. The breadcrumbs are able to recognize that the parent items are Home>World>Europe>Article, but I need this to be visually displayed on the main nav as well.

Is there a way to do this? This has been driving me nuts the last week and I’m sure there’s an easy way around it.

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