Need a way in Menu to keep ui-state-active class on selected item

[Felix Nagel]

When Selectmenu is opened we have a ui-state-focus class on the active item. This is correct as the menu item has focus but we need to add ui-state-active as well.

Without, the item is could not have its own style and looks almost similar to the button in the default CSS framework style.

I've tried to simply add the class when the menu is opened (as we did for for removing old *-focus classes) but its removed after delay in _close method. Any idea how to workaround?

This ticket is related to the comments of Juan Lanus, see: ​http://wiki.jqueryui.com/w/page/12138056/Selectmenu

I've already talked to Scott via IRC and we decided to open a ticket for Menu.

[k_borchers]

@fnagel, do you have, or could you create, a branch where you are adding ui-state-active but it's being removed. I have some things I can try here but would be easier to test if you have selectmenu doing what you want and demonstrating the issue with menu.

[Felix Nagel]

@k_borchers, please see this branch: ​https://github.com/fnagel/jquery-ui/tree/new-selectmenu-dev Just open a selectmenu and watch the ui-state-active class disappear after 1/3 second. The branch includes a unit test.

[Kris Borchers]

Menu: More precise removal of ui-state-active class for easier CSS overrides. Fixes #9532 - Need a way in Menu to keep ui-state-active class on selected item

Changeset: 52307ebadbca3f403549140e1d34f08bc07bf8ce