show as expanded is forced to true if menu item has children and you are on child trail

Ibrahim Tameme → closed merge request !8506

After checking it turn out that all set as expanded option in Administration menu links are set to false, so with the patch provided above you will need to update all the Administration menu links which is a rough task so this patch ignores the Administration menu and add the condition to other menus.

@Ibrahim Tameme i installed drupal 10.3.x on DDEV v1.22.6 and php 8.3.0 and apply the patch 3456536-fix-menu-expansion-7.patch which is working fine.

This may be a duplicate of ✨ Menu item checkbox "Show as expanded" not working properly Needs work .

I tested this on Drupal 11.x, using the steps in the issue summary. I did not see any difference in the UI between when the patch was not applied and when it was. Is there supposed to be a change?

Changes are made on on 11.x (our main development branch) first, and are then back ported as needed according to our policies.

This seems to fix the issue for me.

Previously {{ item.is_expanded }} was being forced to true when on the active menu item.

Debugging it reveals false when on the active menu item and it has children, even when its not set to "expanded".

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After applying the patch;

And then just to ensure your menu doesn't print out, ensure you have some logic like;

{% if item.below and item.is_expanded %}
  {{ menus.menu_links(item.below, attributes, menu_level + 1, item) }}
{% endif %}

Thanks for the patch!