how to set active class to nav menu from twitter bootstrap

Question

I'm new to the twitter bootstrap. Using there navigation menus . I'm trying to set active class to selected menu. my menu is -

<div class="nav-collapse">
  <ul class="nav">
    <li id="home" class="active"><a href="~/Home/Index">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Project</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Customer</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Staff</a></li>
    <li  id="broker"><a href="~/Home/Broker">Broker</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Sale</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

I tried following thing after googling on this that i have to set active class on each page from menu like as--

<script>
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $('#home').addClass('active');
  });
</script>

but problem for above is that i set home menu selected by default. Then it always get selected. Is there any other way to do this ? , or which i can generalize and keep my js in layout file itself?

After executing application my menu looks -

after clicking on other menu item i get following result-

And i added following scripts on Index view and Broker view ---

<script>
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $('#home').addClass('active');
  });
</script>

<script>
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $('#broker').addClass('active');
  });
</script>

respectively.

Answer 1

You can use this JavaScript\jQuery code:

// Sets active link in Bootstrap menu
// Add this code in a central place used\shared by all pages
// like your _Layout.cshtml in ASP.NET MVC for example
$('a[href="' + this.location.pathname + '"]').parents('li,ul').addClass('active');

It'll set the <a>'s parent <li> and the <li>'s parent <ul> as active.

A simple solution that works!

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Bootstrap add active class to li