Navigation menu with highlight in Asp.NET MVC?

Question

It\'s a simple question. How did stackoverflow do their menu in Asp.net MVC, with highlight on what page we are on.

Answer 1

There is probably no MVC special magic that makes this happen.

I'm sure:

if( HttpContext.Current.Request.Path == "some some menu url" )

or

if( ViewContext_Or_ControllerContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] == "some value") 

is used someplace.

You could put this code in about three different locations ( View ( .aspx ), ViewModel, Custom HtmlHelper ) and they would all require that same bit of code.