django-navhelper 1.0.0

Django template tags designed to help the navigation rendering

Django template tags to add active class on navigation menus

Prerequisites

• Django 4.2

• Python 3.10

Installation

From sources

python setup.py install

From PyPi

pip install django-navhelper==1.0

Configure your Django installation

Add geelweb.django.navhelper in your INSTALLED_APPS.

Template tags

navactive

Returns “active” if url name of the current request path is in the list of view names

{% load navactive %}
<li class="{% navactive request "view_name app_name:another_view_name namespace:" %}">
    <a href="{% url "view_name" }">Menu Entry</a>
</li>

renavactive

Returns “active” if the pattern is found in the request path

{% load navactive %}
<li class="{% renavactive request "^/start_with_foo" %}">
    <a href="{% url "view_name" }">Menu Entry</a>
</li>

Settings

You can customize some options using settings

NAVHELPER_ACTIVE_CLASS

Default: ‘active’

The class name for active entries

NAVHELPER_NOT_ACTIVE_CLASS

Default: ‘’ (Empty string)

The class name for non-active entries

Run test suite

To run the test suite, first, create and activate a virtual environment. Then install some requirements and run the tests:

pip install Django==4.2
python runtests.py