Adding “active” tag to navigation list in an asp.net mvc master page

Question

In the default asp.net mvc project, in the Site.Master file, there is a menu navigation list:

Answer 1

In MVC 3 Razor View Engine, you can do it as:

@{string ctrName = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString();}


  
 
    
 class="active"}>@ Html.ActionLink("Home",  "Index", "Home")
    
 class="active"}>@ Html.ActionLink("About Us", "About", "Home")
  

My sample worked when I have two pages as: Home/About and its controller has same name Index, so I get controller Name for distinction insteed of action. If you want to get action, just replace with following:

@{string ctrName = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString();}