ASP.NET MVC: Masterpage: How to set css class on active menu item

Question

I have the following menu in my masterpage:

    

        <%= Html.ActionLink(\"Employees\",         


        

Answer 1

That's probably the least intensive way of doing it. If you can count on the users to have javascript enabled, I see nothing wrong with this, and have done it myself on occasion.

Request.Url is the object you are interested in to get the current page on the server side. The suggestion to use window.location.href by tvanfosson isn't bad either if you want to keep it entirely clientside.

The advantage of using serverside, is that Request.Url has easily accessible parts of the url, such as Request.Url.Host, etc to help with your link-munging needs.