I've found a few posts that sort of address this problem but haven't found anything that solves it:

When I am on a child page, I would like the parent page name in the menu bar to stay its rollover color.
For example, the parent page is called "Buy Stuff"



When I'm on the "Buy Stuff" page, the words "Buy Stuff" in the menu bar are red, to differentiate it from pages that I'm NOT on.

But when I click on the child page, called "Apparel", the "Buy Stuff" turns back to black, so no one knows what parent page "Apparel" is related to.



I would like for the parent page to stay red in the menu bar when I'm on the child page.

Any ideas?

Thanks -

ALSO: the same goes for the child pages. I would like for the sidebar menu item to stay highlighted when I'm on the actual page I've clicked on.

I'm having the same issue...

I'd really like to know how to do this as well.

It seems to have something to do with li class="page_item current_page_item", which goes off of the parent page when the child page is active, but I need adult supervision to know how to do anything about it.

For other folks who are looking for this info, I just stumbled on this thread

http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthr...+styling+pages

which might help. I'm still trying to figure it out myself, but I've gotten part of it to work.

Still not having any luck getting the parent pages to stay the right color.

But FYI, for people like me who didn't know any better, this has something to do with using the flexipages plugin to make my sidebars out of subpages.

I'm not using Flexi-pages, just the basic atahualpa drop downs. I was able to control the top level menu color by using:
div#menu1 ul.rMenu li.current_page_parent a {
color: #000000;
background-color: #C5C5C5;
}