Track the current active page, or how to get controller and action names in a view

Question

I am new in ASP.NET Core. I have a navigation menu and I would like to track the active item. My idea is to use the action and controller names as navigation keys:

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Answer 1

I would like to add something small that has perhaps been overlooked... Just add some embedded code in the layouts page at the top, before the HTML begins...

@{
    var controller = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["Controller"];
    var action = ViewContext.RouteData.Values["Action"];
}

The code is pretty self-explanatory... Then call the variables' values from anywhere within your code just as they are, like the way I did as shown below:

@controller | @action

I found this method to be much simpler and hassle-free than aforementioned methods. Cheerio ;)