Is there a way to make the parent page in the Page Menu highlighted when one of it's child pages is visited?

you can use a CSS Insert (ATO->add HTML/CSS Inserts->CSS Inserts) like this

/* ================================================ */
/* Here is how to change the child menu items       */
/* ================================================ */
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:link, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:active, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:visited, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:hover, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li,
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver {
	background: #ffffff !important;
	color: #2912E7 !important;
}

Originally Posted by juggledad

you can use a CSS Insert (ATO->add HTML/CSS Inserts->CSS Inserts) like this

/* ================================================ */
/* Here is how to change the child menu items       */
/* ================================================ */
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:link, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:active, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:visited, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li a:hover, 
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver li,
li.current_page_item ul.rMenu-ver {
	background: #ffffff !important;
	color: #2912E7 !important;
}

The comment in the code above says 'to change the child menu items' - before I try it, I want to confirm that we are talking about changing the PARENT <li> in the page menu, when a child page is visited.

sorry, copied the wrong code try this

/* ================================================ */
/* how to highlight parent of current page          */
/* ================================================ */
ul.rMenu li.current_page_parent a:link, 
ul.rMenu li.current_page_parent a:active, 
ul.rMenu li.current_page_parent a:hover, 
ul.rMenu li.current_page_parent a:visited, 
ul.rMenu li.current_page_parent {
background: #00ffff !important;
}
/* ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ */

Note if you have A the parent of B the parent of C and you are on page C, this will only highlight B, if you want A and B highlighted use current_page_ancestor instead of current_page_parent

This fixed my problem! Thanks a lot!

Originally Posted by juggledad

Note if you have A the parent of B the parent of C and you are on page C, this will only highlight B, if you want A and B highlighted use current_page_ancestor instead of current_page_parent

I've tried with current_page_ancestor, but it doesn't really work, because it highlights all the B items, so the user doesn't know where he is in the B sub-menu.
The selected elements of A and B have the current-menu-ancestor class, but sub-elements inherit the properties.

In WP 3.0+ with the new menus, try using 'current-menu-parent' in place of 'current_page_parent'