How Can I Add a “Selected” Class Based on URL with jQuery?

Question

I have a sidebar list of links in my wikispace theme that currently uses jQuery to apply a class to each of the sidebar links based on the URL after the .com/. You can see

Answer 1

Sounds like you need to do something like this:

$(".wiki_link").removeClass("wiki_link");   // remove the css class
$(".wiki_link_new").removeClass("wiki_link_new");

// adds the selected class to the link who's href attribute contains 
// the current relative path.  Probably needs tweaking based on querystrings
// and whatnot.
$(".wiki_link[href~=" + window.location.pathname +"]").addClass("selected");  

If all the links have the same two classes (wiki_link and wiki_link_new) you can remove them both at once by doing removeClass("wiki_link wiki_link_new").