how to set styles in selected menu item.

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I putted this code in master page to display menus in all this pages.

XML

<ul>
           <li><a id="lnkHome" href="Default.aspx">Home</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkAboutUs" href="AboutUs.aspx">About Us</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkDisclaimer" href="Disclaimer.aspx">Disclaimer</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkServices" href="Services.aspx">Services</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkContactUs" href="ContactUs.aspx">Contact Us</a> </li>
</ul>

And used css to style this menus like ul li,a:hover, a:visited……
Now how I can add difference appearance in particular <a> link if that page is currently visiting. E.g. If I click the About Us <a> link then it navigate to AboutUs.aspx page and then I want to set background image in that link and background:none in other links.

Posted 29-Jul-12 3:23am

Dinesh Ambaliya

Updated 29-Jul-12 3:25am

Wes Aday

v2

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Solution 2

Use the id. Here is a sample.

in aspx file

ASP.NET

<div id="menuInside">
	<ul id="nav-mini">
		<li><asp:linkbutton id="LinkButton1" runat="server"></asp:linkbutton></li>
		<li><asp:linkbutton id="LinkButton2" runat="server"></asp:linkbutton></li>
		<li><asp:linkbutton id="LinkButton3" runat="server"></asp:linkbutton></li>
		<li><asp:linkbutton id="LinkButton4" runat="server"></asp:linkbutton></li>
		</ul>
</div>

in css file.

CSS

#menuInside a#LinkButton1{
...
}
#menuInside a#LinkButton1:hover{
...
}

#menuInside a#LinkButton2{
...
}
#menuInside a#LinkButton2:hover{
...
}

hope this helps.

Posted 29-Jul-12 16:19pm

graciax8

Updated 29-Jul-12 16:21pm

v2

Solution 3

you can try like this

XML

<ul>
           <li><a class="liselected" id="lnkHome" href="Default.aspx">Home</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkAboutUs" href="AboutUs.aspx">About Us</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkDisclaimer" href="Disclaimer.aspx">Disclaimer</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkServices" href="Services.aspx">Services</a> </li>
           <li><a id="lnkContactUs" href="ContactUs.aspx">Contact Us</a> </li>
</ul

>

.liselected
{
background-color:#333;
.......
.......
}

Posted 30-Jul-12 4:42am

mark_zh

Updated 30-Jul-12 4:43am

v3

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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-29T08:22:00

You can do it by "a:active", but I have not tried :p.
When I was searching in google, I found one post - CSS, menu:active not working[^], where it is stated that "a:active" is not working, but it has an accepted answer.

You can see, the person who has given the answer commented again below the answer about how to achieve it if "a:active" is not working.
So, follow his suggestions.
Hope it helps.