Add Active Navigation Class to Menu Item Based on URL Using jQuery
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Oct 9, 2015
In this jQuery tutorial, you’ll learn how to add an active class to a menu item based on the page URL using jQuery… so you can highlight that menu item. You’ll learn:
- how to use the jQuery addClass() method
- how to get the current page’s URL path in JavaScript
- how to split a URL in an array of parts
- how to use the JavaScript pop() method
- how to target an element based the value of a specified attributed using jQuery
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Originally published at John Morris.
