Title: Highlight Current Navigation
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Highlight Current Navigation

 *  Resolved [colincameron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colincameron/)
 * (@colincameron)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/)
 * I am working on my own theme from scratch but im currently stuck on how to highlight
   the current page tab. I have been searching all day and I found a few examples
   but they were all for kubrick.
 * Is there a trick I can use with the wp_list_pages tag?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296940)
 * It’s built in. Just make some Pages and then check the _source_ code of your 
   Page with the generated list.
 *  Thread Starter [colincameron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colincameron/)
 * (@colincameron)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296945)
 * Oh boy is my face red, thanks a lot!
 *  Thread Starter [colincameron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colincameron/)
 * (@colincameron)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296947)
 * I got another question, is there a way to change the class text so if the page
   isnt selected theres no class and if selected it just says class=”selected”
 * or just class=”current_page_item” because i keep getting class=”page_item current_page_item”
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296954)
 * page_item = not selected
    current_page_item = selected You just have to define
   in your stylesheet the current… and you are OK 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [colincameron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colincameron/)
 * (@colincameron)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296961)
 * Yup, I know that much but should the current page show both classes in one? like
   in my example.
 * Thanks for the help
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296963)
 * Ah, yes. You don’t have to do anything with that code: WP generates it for you.
   The Page where you are has this in the list:
    `<li class="page_item current_page_item"
   >`
 *  Thread Starter [colincameron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colincameron/)
 * (@colincameron)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296968)
 * ok just making sure i dint mess something up, thanks

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-current-navigation/#post-296968)
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