Active navigation with jQuery - can't apply a default class to anchor

Question

I am currently trying to make a navigation-menu where an active-class is applied to the anchors whose href attributes that match the c

Answer 1

I think you can simplify this a bit:

function highlightSelected()
{
  $("h2.subnav a").each(
    function()
    {
      if (location.pathname.indexOf(this.href) > -1)
      {
        $(this).addClass("selected");
      }
    }
  );
}