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    copied!<p>I am working on a navigation for a site and need some guidance on dynamically adding a class to the active link. In addition, once that link is established and I need to reference back to the parent and have it "show".</p> <p>This is what I am working with. The navigation is accordion style but does not use the Accordion UI. </p> <pre><code>&lt;ul id="menu3"&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}"&gt;Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="drop" href="#"&gt;Information&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}information/audio"&gt;Audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}information/video"&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}information/presentations"&gt;Presentations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="drop" href="#"&gt;Clinics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}clinics/one"&gt;Office 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}clinics/two"&gt;Office 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}forms/"&gt;Forms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="{site_url}success_stories/index"&gt;Success Stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>Then I have a bit of jQuery to initially hide the submenu items:</p> <pre><code>$(function(){ $('ul#menu3 ul').hide(); $('ul#menu3 &gt; li &gt; a.drop').click(function(){ $(this).parent().children('ul').toggle("slow"); return false; }); </code></pre> <p>So far so good. Everything works.</p> <p>Now I would like to dynamically highlight the active link and I tried using:</p> <pre><code>var path = location.pathname.substring(1); if ( path ) $('ul#menu3 a[href$="' + path + '"]').attr('class', 'selected'); </code></pre> <p>but it doesn't seem to be enough to add the correct class.</p> <p>The last thing I need to do is to have the navigation open to the active group. For example if <strong>Audio</strong> is the current page, the <strong>Information</strong> section of the navigation accordion would be open to show the active link.</p> <p>I would really appreciate some help on this. Thanks.</p>
 

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