Li class active in CSS menu - but menu and head is a php include - solution

You including the main navigation menu on all pages using and .inc file and you also want to have the menu highlight to show which page its on. You could
• do this by giving the body an ID and CSS styles for each body ID=active or something. BUT my body tag is in an include called head.inc - so it cant be unique on every page.

you could give the ul containing the menu a unique id on every page and then your has the code below- note - I think it can't be and .inc file anymore, it must be changed to be called .php because its actually executing php inside the menu include now, not just including plain HTML. ALSO - watch out for the " " marks, i don't think they're meant to be the fancy curly ones but the plain ones - retype the code to be safe rather than copypasting.


VARIATION - You can also change the menu code slightly to make the active page not linkable at all - this will further make the current page stand out from the other menu options. Here is an example of the code you would use for the links:

ahh cant work out how to paste code without it becoming html - go to the linked page for now