Question

Is it possible to make a django template URL aware without javascript?

For example, I would like to modify the css class to “active” for a certain tab or pill in twitter bootstrap.

Answer 1

If you have request available in context then you can use request.path within the template to know the url and make css class active or inactive based on that.
You need to add django.core.context_processors.request in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS in project settings.

Alternatively just pass a page_name in request context and use that.

As arie pointed out: check django-activelink which basically seems to use the same above approach I mentioned but it adds some template tags on top.