Navigation in django

Question

I\'ve just done my first little webapp in django and I love it. I\'m about to start on converting an old production PHP site into django and as part its template, there is a

Answer 1

A little enhancement over @tback's answer, without any %if% tags:

# navigation.py
from django import template
from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(name="activate_if_active", is_safe=True)
def activate_if_active(request, urlname):
  if resolve(request.get_full_path()).url_name == urlname:
    return "active"
  return ''

Use it in your template like that:

{% load navigation %}

  My View

And include "django.core.context_processors.request" in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting.