ASP.NET MVC Menu Selected Item

Question

OK new to MVC. I had asked this question earlier and got an answer but I am wondering if there is a simpler solution.

Say I have a master page with a menu laid out as an

Answer 1

Just learning MVC now, but I came across this problem and I've figured out a much quicker method of achieving this. It relies on consistent URLs, and isn't affected by query strings.

              
  

    @Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")
  

    @Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")%>

Of course, you could handle multiple URLs showing the same item selected through OR logic or making a list. But if you're making a list, you'd of course want that in your model. You could have an option highlight for a whole directory by just checking that the start of the string matches.

As is, this would be most suitable to a more static website. If you include this on a LayoutPage, maintenance is pretty easy as you don't have extra classes or functions to maintain. Obviously this wouldn't cut it if you were working off a CMS.