Question

ok so heres my nav setup

<div id="headerMenu">
            <ul>  
                <li style="width:147px"><a href="/?page_id=92" class="menuHov"><span>ABOUT<br/>ABOUT</span></a></li>
                <li style="width:186px"><a href="/?page_id=64" class="menuHov"><span>STOCKISTS<br/>STOCKISTS</span></a></li>
                <li style="width:146px"><a href="/?page_id=96" class="menuHov"><span>PRESS<br/>PRESS</span></a></li>
                <li style="width:128px"><a href="/?category_name=blogs" class="menuHov"><span>BLOG<br/>BLOG</span></a></li>
                <li style="width:70px"><a href="/?page_id=89 " class="menuHov"><span>CONTACT<br/>CONTACT</span></a></li>
            </ul>

i need a jquery script to recognize the page_id variable and the href and if they’re the same, change color… let me know if you need anymore info…

heres what i tried so far.

 $(document).ready(function() {
    $('a.menuHov[href$=' + window.location.pathname + ']').css('color', '#fae349');
});

but that changes everything because i guess it doesn’t recognize the href as a pathname

Answer 1

$(function(){
    var page_id = getParameterByName("page_id");
    $("a.menuHov[href$=" + page_id + "]").css('color', '#fae349');
})

Include the query string parser from here

function getParameterByName( name )
{
  name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
  var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
  var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
  var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
  if( results == null )
    return "";
  else
    return decodeURIComponent(results[1].replace(/\+/g, " "));
}