Setting Bootstrap navbar active class in Laravel 5

Question

I've been wondering around looking for solutions, but can't really understand especially when creating helpers. I'm new in Laravel and I want a simple or if not a detailed instruction on how to set the active class for my bootstrap navbar.

Here's what I've done so far, but can't get it done:

<div class="header clearfix">
        <nav>
          <ul class="nav nav-pills pull-right">
            <li class=""><a href="{{ url('/') }}">Home</a>
            </li>
            <li {{ Request::is('about*') ? ' class="active"' : null }}><a href="{{ url('about') }}">About Us</a>
            </li>
            <li><a href="{{ url('auth/login') }}">Login</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
    <h2 class="">Tobacco Prevention and Control Program</h2>
</div>

EDIT

Setting class="active" will make all nav-pills active. The intended effect is that only the li of the current page have the active class.

Answer 1

Your code is working fine, but you have to use it for every link that can be active. It is better to return only class name, not class="..." so you can add other classes.

Be careful when using * at the end (about*). If you use /* for home page then it will always be marked as active (because every other page starts with /).

<ul class="nav nav-pills pull-right">
    <li class="{{ Request::is('/') ? 'active' : '' }}">
        <a href="{{ url('/') }}">Home</a>
    </li>
    <li class="{{ Request::is('about') ? 'active' : '' }}">
        <a href="{{ url('about') }}">About Us</a>
    </li>
    <li class="{{ Request::is('auth/login') ? 'active' : '' }}">
        <a href="{{ url('auth/login') }}">Login</a>
    </li>
</ul>

You can also move {{ Request::is('/') ? 'active' : '' }} to helper function/method.

Answer 2

If you are working with named routes. You can use this approach in your views:

{{ Route::currentRouteNamed('about') ? 'active' : '' }}

or

{{ Route::is('about') ? 'active' : '' }}

The Illuminate\Routing\Router#is(...) is an alias of the Illuminate\Routing\Router#currentRouteNamed(...).

Answer 3

<ul class="nav nav-second-level">
                    <li class="{{ Request::segment(1) === 'programs' ? 'active' : null }}">
                        <a href="{{ url('programs' )}}" ></i> Programs</a>
                    </li>
                    <li class="{{ Request::segment(1) === 'beneficiaries' ? 'active' : null }}">
                        <a href="{{url('beneficiaries')}}"> Beneficiaries</a>
                    </li>
                    <li class="{{ Request::segment(1) === 'indicators' ? 'active' : null }}">
                        <a href="{{url('indicators')}}"> Indicators</a>
                    </li>                     
                </ul>

Answer 4

Throw this in your helper.php

function set_active($path, $active = 'active') {

    return call_user_func_array('Request::is', (array)$path) ? $active : '';

}

Use it like so

<li class="{{ set_active(['about*']) }}"><a href="{{ url('about') }}">About Us</a>

You can pass a single string to a route or multiple and wildcards.

See more detail on Laravel Trick

Answer 5

solution is

<ul class="nav navbar-nav pull-right">
      <li class="{{ Request::is('/') ? 'active' : '' }}">
         <a href="{{ url('/') }}">Home</a>
     </li>
      <li class="{{ Request::is('about') ? 'active' : '' }}">
         <a href="{{ url('/about') }}">About Us</a>
     </li>
      <li class="{{ Request::is('whyus') ? 'active' : '' }}">
         <a href="{{ url('/whyus') }}">Why Us</a>
      </li>
 </ul>

Answer 6

Request::path() returns the request uri, for example: http://localhost/programs , will return programs, so you can do this:

 <li class="{{ Request::path() ==  'programs' ? 'active' : ''  }}">
                    <a href="{{ url('programs') }}"></i> Programs</a>
                </li>

Answer 7

Set a section on your blade file (let home.blade.php) like

@section('Home', 'my-active-class')

And set a section on your another blade file (let about.blade.php) like

@section('About', 'my-active-class')

and yield this section on app.blade.php (Suppose you are extending from app.blade.php)

...
<li class="@yield('Home')"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li class="@yield('About')"><a href="#">About</a></li>
...

Answer 8

The solution given by @Daniel Antos is best answer, as I have found. Mr. Danial Antos also warned about using * at the end (about*). Because while using /* for home page then it is always marked as active (because every other page starts with /). So, I have used as follows and it worked fine for me:

{{ (Request::is('users') || Request::is('users/*') ? 'active open' : '') }}

Answer 9

This is simple: to get your links to be active when using bootstrap, all you need is an if statement inside the class link, for instance: i have my current url as http://example.com/home

 <li class="{{ Request::url() == url('/home') ? 'active' : '' }}"><a href="/home" ></li>
     Home
 </a>

and you are good to go.

Answer 10

I think this would be simple, and it works for me.

<li class="{{ Request::segment(1)=='vehicles' ? 'active' : '' }}">
   <a href="/vehicles">Vehicles</a>
</li>

Answer 11

I found the solution:

composer require devmarketer/easynav

More details : https://github.com/DevMarketer/LaravelEasyNav

Answer 12

use Request::is('[level]') ? 'active' : '' In case of multilevel, use:

Request::is('[level]', '[level]/*') ? 'active' : ''

Answer 13

<ul class="nav nav-second-level">
                    <li class={{ Request::is('/') ? 'active' : '' }}>
                        <a href="{{ url('programs' )}}" ></i> Programs</a>
                    </li>
                    <li class="{{ Request::segment(1) === 'beneficiaries' ? 'active' : null }}">
                        <a href="{{url('beneficiaries')}}"> Beneficiaries</a>
                    </li>
                    <li class="{{ Request::segment(1) === 'indicators' ? 'active' : null }}">
                        <a href="{{url('indicators')}}"> Indicators</a>
                    </li>                     
                </ul>

Answer 14

The Easiest way is to add class active :-

@if (request()->routeIs('dashboard'))
   class="active"
@endif

Answer 15

If we manage to get the URL path, we can compare it with the routes and put an active class there.

 {{'/'==request()->path()?'active':''}}

 {{'about'==request()->path()?'active':''}}