Highlight tab in menu

Question

I have a menu which is a ul

Home | Calendar | Settings

I want to highlight (via a css class) the selected tab in the menu.

Some lin

Answer 1

In your helper file:

def is_active?(page_name)
  "active" if params[:action] == page_name
end

In the template file:

link_to 'Home', '/', :class => is_active?("index")
link_to 'About', '/about', :class => is_active?("about")
link_to 'contact', '/contact', :class => is_active?("contact")

I found this on: http://juliocapote.com/post/52081481/highlight-link-based-on-current-page-in-rails