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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