I am currently trying to make a navigation-menu where an active-class is applied to the anchors with hrefs that match the current url, so I can style that anchor in a way that makes it stand out from the rest of the menu.
This is my mark-up:
<div id="sidebar">
<h2>Navigation menu</h2>
<h2 class="subnav"><a href="menu1/menu_item1">Menu item 1</a></h2>
<h2 class="subnav"><a href="menu1/menu_item2">Menu item 2</a></h2>
<h2 class="subnav"><a href="menu1/menu_item3">Menu item 3</a></h2>
<h2 class="subnav"><a href="menu1/menu_item4">Menu item 4</a></h2>
<h2 class="subnav"><a href="menu1/menu_item5">Menu item 5</a></h2>
</div>
This is the jQuery:
jQuery(function($) {
// get the current url
var path = location.pathname.substring(1);
// defining the top subnav anchor
var $top_item = $('#sidebar h2:nth-child(2) a');
// defining all subnav anchors
var $all_items = $('#sidebar h2.subnav a');
// defining the anchors with a href that matches the current url
var $selected_item = $('#sidebar h2 a[@href$="' + path + '"]');
// setting the selected menu item'class as active
$selected_item.addClass('active');
// THIS IS WHERE I THINK THE ERROR IS
// if none of the h2.subnav's has a url that matches
// the current location then assume that it's the top one that's active:
if ($all_items("href") !== path) $top_item.addClass('active');
});
I am applying the active-class with jQuery, it works fine as long as there is a match between an anchors href and the location url. If the url don't match any of the anchors I want the active-class to be applied to the $top_item. That part of my jQuery doesn't work.
I can't see what the error is, but then again I'm somewhat of a Javascipt/jQuery n00b. Any help would be appreciated.