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

Extract the current location from window.location. Then use a selector that specifies the value of the href attribute to choose just those elements that match (presumably only one).

 var currentLocation = window.location.href;
 // probably needs to be massaged to extract just the path so that it works in dev/prod

$("#menu li a[href$="+currentLocation+"]").addClass("current");