I have a html as sidebar, and use Bootstrap
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This will do the trick
$(document).ready(function () {
var url = window.location;
var element = $('ul.nav a').filter(function() {
return this.href == url || url.href.indexOf(this.href) == 0;
}).addClass('active').parent().parent().addClass('in').parent();
if (element.is('li')) {
element.addClass('active');
}
});