If I have the vertical accordion menu on my site, is there a way I can make one of the menu list items active?

This way it can display children on page load.

Any help with this would greatly be appreciated.

Hi Daniel

Can you explain your idea in detail?

So, I want to use an accordian, vertical menu. So pretty much:

Menu Type: Accordian
Style Flyout: Vertical
Sub Menu Activation: Click

Currently, when the page is loaded, the menu loads as originally intended. (see: old.jpg)

With these settings in mind, when the page is loaded, I want one of the sub-menus to already be opened. (see: new.jpg)

There would be no change in functionality of the menu. Just this one menu opened. If A user were to click on a different menu, the current one that is opened would close just as it always does and the new menu would open up.


Let me know if you didn't understand my description. Pretty much, all I want is for one of the menu items to already be opened when the page is loaded under the settings I mentioned above.

Maybe someone can help me add a small jquery snippet to make this work? I'm not too technical with these things.

Okay, so I was able to accomplish what I wanted. I pretty much hardcoded it. This is what I did:

First I copied the /mod_sj_flat_menu/tmpl/default.php to /templates/TEMPLATE_NAME/html/mod_sj_flat_menu/default.php.

Then I edited the copied file at line 47.

I removed


and added

Replace ##### with the menu id from joomla you want to load opened. The reason for adding the class, fm-opened, is so that the plugin's css formatting loads as it should. I also added an extra class "default-opened", because we will need it to open the sub menu via css.

Save file.

Lastly, just add this to your css files


Save. That's it!

Now when the page now loads, you will have this menu's subcategories loaded just as the pictures show in my post above.

This doesn't mess with anything else, because once you click on a different menu item, the plugin's jquery kicks in and overrides my css.


Anyways, thanks for the awesome plugin guys!!

Hello Daniel,

I am sorry. We stopped working two days

Thanks