How do you check for Current Page status?

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I usually do this through descendant CSS selectors. For example, for each page, I will give a unique ID to the body tag (generally based on the controller name) and each navigation element has a unique ID.

---- application.rhtml ----

<body id="<%= @controller.controller_name %>_body">

<ul> <li><a href="index" id="index_nav">Index</a></li> <li><a href="notes" id="notes_nav">Notes</a></li> </ul>

Assuming my controllers share the same name as the href, I would use CSS as follows to highlight the current navigation:

#index #index_nav, #notes #notes_nav {   font-weight: bold;   color: red }

Best Regards

Robin

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#index #index_nav, #notes #notes_nav {   font-weight: bold;   color: red

}

Should be:

#index_body #index_nav, #notes_body #notes_nav

Robin