Why on earth do I have to pass RequestContext in all of my responses?

Question

I want to highlight the current page in the navigation menu. Obviously I need to give the menu links a class like \'active\' when you are on their page. This is a classic pr

Answer 1

You don't necessarily have to do anything to the markup of your navigation to give the current one a different style - there are declarative ways to do that using CSS.

See my answer here: Django: Is there a better way to bold the current page link for an example.