Navigation in django
django, navigation
Solution
I use template inheritance to customize navigation. For example:
base.html
<html>
<head>...</head>
<body>
...
{% block nav %}
<ul id="nav">
<li>{% block nav-home %}<a href="{% url 'home' %}">Home</a>{% endblock %}</li>
<li>{% block nav-about %}<a href="{% url 'about' %}">About</a>{% endblock %}</li>
<li>{% block nav-contact %}<a href="{% url 'contact' %}">Contact</a>{% endblock %}</li>
</ul>
{% endblock %}
...
</body>
</html>
about.html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block nav-about %}<strong class="nav-active">About</strong>{% endblock %}
Problem
I've just done my first little webapp in django and I love it. I'm about to start on converting an old production PHP site into django and as part its template, there is a navigation bar. In PHP, I check each nav option's URL against the current URL, in the template code and apply a CSS class if they line up. It's horrendously messy. Is there something better for django or a good way of handling the code in the template? To start, how would I go about getting the current URL?