How to highlight selected link in master page using asp.net

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I have several links in my master page Home contact Help, and i have added three content pages Home.aspx,contact.aspx and help.aspx added to links in master page . how to highlight selected link, for example when i click Home i want to highlight Home like contact help also

my code is

masterpage.master

<form>

Home Contact
Help

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">

</form>

Posted 19-Jan-15 19:39pm

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bluesathish · Answer 1 · 2015-01-19T19:53:00

Solution 1

Hi,

There will be one style available called Hover property, you can use that. Change the background color in that property.

(Ex)
Here HomeMenu is my Menu item name. Post this below code in your style sheet.

HTML

#HomeMenu:hover
{
    background: #0066CC;
}

Refer this below link,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17060426/how-to-highlight-active-page-in-a-masterpage-menu[^]

Regards,
BlueSathish

Posted 19-Jan-15 19:53pm

bluesathish

Updated 19-Jan-15 20:08pm

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Member 11382784 20-Jan-15 1:58am

i have used that, when am clicking link it is showing color but after page redirecting the link is not highlighting ..

my code masterpage.master

<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.menu_div ul
{
padding: 6px;
margin: 0px;
font-size: 12px;
list-style: none;
text-indent: 15px;
}
.menu_div ul li
{
line-height: 28px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
}
.menu_div ul li a
{
text-decoration: none;
font-color: #3A332D;
display: block;
}
.menu_div ul li a:hover
{
background: blue;
}
.menu_div ul li#active
{
background: blue;
}
</style>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server">

</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="menu_div">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Help</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">

</form>
</body>

bluesathish 20-Jan-15 2:09am

check the link I've posted in my updated solution. Hope it'll help you.

Member 11382784 20-Jan-15 2:23am

it showing color while am clicking, after page redirecting it is not showing any color