Question

I want to add class active to the <li> whenever specific url is accessed?

my code look like this,

<ul>
<li>
    <a href="link1">Link1</a>
</li>
<li>
    <a href="link2">Link2</a>
</li>
<li>
    <a href="link3">Link3</a>
</li>
<li>
    <a href="link4">Link4</a>
</li>
<li>
    <a href="link5">Link5</a>
</li>
<li>
    <a href="link6">Link6</a>
</li>
</ul>

if http://www.abc/link1 is is present in the url then only 1st li should be active and rest of them should not have any class.

Thnks in advance

Answer 1

Here is how you could do it with JavaScript…

var normalisePath = function(path) { return path.replace(/^\/|\/$/g, ''); },
var path = normalisePath(window.location.pathname),
    li = document.getElementsByTagName('li'),
    i, length, a;

for (i = 0, length = li.length; i < length; i++) {
    a = li[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];

    if (normalisePath(a.pathname) == path) {
        li[i].className += ' active';
        break;
    }
}