From a06eb69b494d20a0e8abff5e28d6efc898f04bbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: albert-github <albert.tests@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:39:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] issue #9074 Menubar Links not Parsed Correctly

The handling in the navtree was done in such a way that absolute links were prepended with a `^`, in the menus this was not done, this has been corrected.
---
 src/index.cpp          |  1 +
 templates/html/menu.js | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/index.cpp b/src/index.cpp
index fde6783e2fe..24a62823c12 100644
--- a/src/index.cpp
+++ b/src/index.cpp
@@ -5119,6 +5119,7 @@ static bool renderQuickLinksAsJs(std::ostream &t,LayoutNavEntry *root,bool first
         if (!firstChild) t << ",\n";
         firstChild=FALSE;
         QCString url = entry->url();
+        if (isURL(url)) url = "^" + url;
         t << "{text:\"" << convertToJSString(entry->title()) << "\",url:\""
           << convertToJSString(url) << "\"";
         bool hasChildren=FALSE;
diff --git a/templates/html/menu.js b/templates/html/menu.js
index 54e81cf15c4..818b859b7a1 100644
--- a/templates/html/menu.js
+++ b/templates/html/menu.js
@@ -28,7 +28,15 @@ function initMenu(relPath,searchEnabled,serverSide,searchPage,search) {
     if ('children' in data) {
       result+='<ul>';
       for (var i in data.children) {
-        result+='<li><a href="'+relPath+data.children[i].url+'">'+
+        var url;
+        var link;
+        link = data.children[i].url;
+        if (link.substring(0,1)=='^') {
+          url = link.substring(1);
+        } else {
+          url = relPath+link;
+        }
+        result+='<li><a href="'+url+'">'+
                                 data.children[i].text+'</a>'+
                                 makeTree(data.children[i],relPath)+'</li>';
       }