Hi,

strange that nobody answered yet since I guess that almost everybody 
encountered the same question already.

I personally did it via a custom template tag which puts out active if the 
current URL matches the URL pattern for a view.

Cheers
Ivo

On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:27 , 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
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