ASP.NET MVC: Masterpage: How to set css class on active menu item

Question

I have the following menu in my masterpage:

    

        <%= Html.ActionLink(\"Employees\",         


        

Answer 1

This should NOT be done with Javascript! Deciding which page you are on is the job of the server side code, it's not a UI behaviour.

Have the menu as a user control and pass a value to it to indicate which part of the menu should be highlighted. I'm front end person, not a .NET developer but something like this: