Re: Highlighting Active Navigation Link - correct approach?

I've actually just done a ticket about this..

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18584

Personally, I think the approach mentioned in the ticket is a far saner way of doing things.

Cal

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Dhiraj Thakur <dhirajk.92@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, January 9, 2012 11:57:52 AM UTC+5:30, Victor Hooi wrote:

hi,

I have a project where I'm using Bootstrap (www.github.com/twitter/bootstrap) with Django.

I need to add a CSS class ("active") to highlight the active navigation link.

Anyhow, I did some Googling:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/django-navbar
http://ilostmynotes.blogspot.com/2010/03/django-current-active-page-highlighting.html
http://gnuvince.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/a-django-template-tag-for-the-current-active-page/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/340888/navigation-in-django
http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1726/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7665514/django-highlight-navigation-based-on-current-page

The approach in the above seems to be to either use custom template tag, middleware or JS-hackery.

Is there a current consensus in the Django community in terms of what is the "correct" approach for this?

Is there a reason something like this isn't part of Django core, or an in-built templatetag?

Cheers,
Victor

i did this by  adding  {% block activepage %}{% endblock %} in my base template and in a page which extended from the basic template i added {% block activepage %} class="active" {% endblock %}  where active class does the highlight in CSS.

I think JS/jQuery is neat but if you are not comfortable with it i think templates do the trick.. :)

 

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