Highlight the Current Page with CSS

[kmbi]

Hi Glen
Thank you for your support. I will try your solution and write here later to tell if it works

@ hcb39

If I understand correct you want the color of link in Categories box (left navigation) stay white when you are in current category (when link is clicked).
You need this two classes to be defined in your stylesheet.css

/*top category*/
.category-subs-selected {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
/*sub category*/
.category-subs-parent {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}

You can change the color of link color: #FFFFFF; or use different colors for top and sub categories links.
If you want this links to be underlined remove text-decoration: none; or use text-decoration: underline;

[gjh42]

On reflection, there are so many possible internal link configurations that one line can't account for them. The code you would need is already available in Smart Backgrounds, and the new version 3.0 would make it pretty easy to apply to setting the current/notCurrent class. You can find the zip in this thread until it is submitted to Free Addons.

It will require that you save an image file named according to a system for each page or category you want to mark (the content of the file doesn't matter).
The smart_backgrounds() function will return a value of '' (nothing) if an image corresponding to the current page is not found.

or (smart_backgrounds() != ''))

      $page_query_list_header[$rows]['link'] .= (($current_page_base == 'page' and $page_query_list_header[$rows]['id'] == $_GET['id']) or (smart_backgrounds() != ''))? ' class="current"': ' class="notCurrent"';//gjh42 20091203 

The one limitation of this method is that if you highlight a link to a category, any subcategory or product page under that category will also read as "current".

[kmbi]

@gjh42

Hi Glen,
Excuse me, I forgot to write here my solution of the problem.
It is not exactly a solution, but some kind...
The links, that I needed in header was EZ pages with internal/external links, who lead to a category or any other page that I want to have in header menu.
Because I don't change this links often, I edit tpl_header.php, wrote links there and check for "current" page in a way like this:

<a href="index.php?main_page=index&cPath=20" class="
				<?php if ((in_array($cPath,explode(",",'20,20_24,20_25,20_26,20_27,20_28,20_29,20_30,20_31,20_32,20_33,20_34,20_35'))) or (in_array($current_page_base,explode(",",'advanced_search_result_m')))) {
	echo 'current';}?>">men's clothing</a><?php echo EZPAGES_SEPARATOR_HEADER;?>

and of course I define "current" class in css.

Best regards