How to highlight active page in a masterpage menu?

Question

I have a menu inside a masterpage (in a ASP.NET Web site), and i want to highlight active page in masterpage menu and submenus.

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Answer 1

There are many ways to do this. There are some easy and some ugly hacky ones:

Solution 1: Use a Menu Control. The standard .NET Menu Control has an easy solution to do this. This is the cleanest and fastest solution in my opinion. Have a look at this post. Maby it'll help you if you choose this solution.

Solution 2: You coud use some sort of javascript to highlight the current item. jQuery would make that easier if you dont want to write everything by yourself. For this solution have a look at this page. It's outdated but still effective.

Solution 3: This is kinda ugly solution and you can do that in many different ways: You could change the elements to HyperLink controls and set some sort of session or cookie when you click on them. When set you could change the style based on the value the cookie has.

There are even more ways you could solve this but I think the first two solutions will help you.