We will be covering the following recipes in this chapter:
Adding a menu to our theme
Adding content pages to the menu
Styling the Main menu
Contextual submenus using the Menu module
Adding a drop-down navigation menu
Customizing breadcrumbs in Zen-based themes
Hiding node links using CSS
Styling all external links in a page
Styling the Drupal pager
Drupal relies on a core menu component which provides a framework allowing modules to create and customize navigational elements. These can subsequently be exposed via the theme by way of menus embedded either directly within the theme or as content within blocks. Furthermore, this framework forms the basis for the breadcrumb navigation which is an integral facet of every site's user interface.
Besides menu items exposed by modules, Drupal also provides an optional Menu module which allows the customization of the aforementioned items as well as the creation and management of new user-defined menus and their constituent...