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...@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 <http://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://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/django-navbar> >> http://ilostmynotes.blogspot.**com/2010/03/django-current-** >> active-page-highlighting.html<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://gnuvince.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/a-django-template-tag-for-the-current-active-page/> >> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/340888/navigation-**in-django<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/340888/navigation-in-django> >> http://djangosnippets.org/**snippets/1726/<http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1726/> >> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/7665514/django-** >> highlight-navigation-based-on-**current-page<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.. :) > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/9m0Ss0Od_LUJ. > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
