How do I highlight a link based on the current page?

Question

Sorry if this sounds like a really stupid question, but I need to make a link change colour when you are on the page it links to.

For example, when you are on the \"

Answer 1

If for some reason you don't want to handle this on the server-side, you can try this:

// assuming this JS function is called when page loads
onload()
{
  if (location.href.indexOf('/questions') > 0)
  {
    document.getElementById('questionsLink').className = 'questionsStyleOn';
  }
}