Highlight menu tab

It’s been so long, I forget how I set this up…. I’ll drop the code I use to highlight current page in my nav menu, see if it helps….

IN my header.php (where my menu is) I use this for my menu:

<div id="mymenucontainer">
  <div id="mymenu">
    <ul>
      <?php if (is_page()) { $highlight = "page_item"; } else {$highlight = "page_item current_page_item"; } ?>
      <li class="<?php echo $highlight; ?>"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>
      <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

so that part of the code sets up my menu, which you would adjust the wp_list_pages part to suit your needs…but it adds a class of current_page_item to the active tab in the menu

#mymenucontainer{
	height:30px;
	background:#300707;
	display:block;
	padding:0px 0 0px 0px;
	border-top:1px solid #6b0404;
	}
#mymenu{
	position:relative;
	display:block;
	height:30px;
	font-size:13px;
	font-weight:normal;
	font-family:Verdana,Tahoma,Helvitica,sans-serif;
	}
#mymenu ul{
	margin:0px;
	padding:0px 0px 0 10px;
	list-style-type:none;
	width:auto;
	float:left;
	}
#mymenu ul li{
	display:block;
	float:left;
	margin:0 10px 0 10px;
	}
#mymenu ul li a{
	display:block;
	float:left;
	color:#cc99aa;
	text-align: center;
	text-decoration:none;
	padding:7px 0px 0 0px;
	height: 23px;
	}
#mymenu ul li a:hover,#mymenu ul li.current_page_item a{
	color:#d1cbc6;
	height: 23px;
	text-align: center;
	text-decoration:underline;
	}
#mymenu ul li .current_page_item a,#mymenu ul li .current_page_item a:hover{
	color:#020202;
	width: 106px; height: 23px;
	}

obviously you don’t need all my styling, I’m too lazy to truncate. But the last 2 css entries handle the current_page_item link/hover, etc…. which is the active tab