Question

I understand that request.path will give me the current URL.

I am currently working on my base.html template with CSS tabs and I want the template to know which tab is currently “active” and pass class="active-tab" to an <a> tag.

So I wanted to do something like

<a href="{% url orders_list %}"
    {% if request.path = reverse('orders_list') %}
        class="active-tab"
    {$ endif %}
>Orders</a>

But I’m sure you can’t do that if comparison. I also only want the base (?) URL ignoring any GET parameters.

Any suggestions or tips also welcomed. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can use a custom template tag

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def active(request, pattern):
    path = request.path
    if path == pattern:
        return 'active'
    return ''

Then usage is sort of like this in your template:

{% load my_tags %}

{% url orders_list as orders %}
<li class="{% active request orders %}"> 
    <a href="{{ orders }}"> Orders </a> 
</li>

You can modify the template tag as you wish.