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  1. POHow do I get my specific menu to make the active element have a different color
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    copied!<p>I know that this question has been answered before, but I can't figure out how to do it with my code because of the amount of div's and the amount of classes. How can I make the active page have a different background color. I'm using a responsive twitter bootstrap (2) frame so you have to stretch the viewing window out to see all the tabs at the top. </p> <p>The jsFiddle is: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/2bhnQ/1/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/2bhnQ/1/</a></p> <p>My code is as follows:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top"&gt; &lt;div class="navbar-inner"&gt; &lt;div class="container"&gt; &lt;a class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse" href="#"&gt; &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="brand" href="index.php"&gt;HOME&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="nav-collapse"&gt; &lt;ul class="nav"&gt; &lt;li class="dropdown"&gt; &lt;a href="people.php" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown"&gt;People&lt;b class="caret"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu"&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="people.php"&gt;All&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="people.php#staff"&gt;Staff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="people.php#grad"&gt;Graduate Students&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="people.php#undergrad"&gt;Undergraduate Students&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="people.php#visitors"&gt;Visitors and Affiliates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="people.php#interns"&gt;Interns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="people.php#alumni"&gt;InfoLab Alumni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="dropdown"&gt; &lt;a href="publications.php" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown"&gt;Publications&lt;b class="caret"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul class="dropdown-menu"&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="publications.php"&gt;All&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="publications.php#start-and-omnibase"&gt;START and Omnibase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="publications.php#question-answering"&gt;Question Answering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="publications.php#semantic"&gt;The Semantic Web&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="publications.php#other"&gt;Other Publications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="start-system.php"&gt;How START works&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>I've tried doing something like this, but it didn't work. (This is just an answer from another stackoverflow, so I guessed it would be helpful, but I can use $(location).attr('href') or any other option if it helps.)</p> <pre><code>$(document).ready(function(){ alert(window.location.pathname); $(".navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top .navbar-inner .container .nav-collapse .nav li a").each(function(){ if($(this).attr("href")==window.location.pathname) $(this).addClass("active"); }) }) </code></pre> <p>As a novice programmer in my first month on the job, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.</p>
 

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