Title: Location-aware navigation?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Location-aware navigation?

 *  [doodly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodly/)
 * (@doodly)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/location-aware-navigation/)
 * The new Pages feature sounds like just what I’m interested in – I need to combine
   news/blog-type content in one part of a site I’m working on with static pages
   in another area.
 * But – I need the navigation to reflect the location – so if I’m in a Pages area,
   the main and sublevel nav should show the location (by that option being in bold,
   or otherwise highlighted). See this page, where the main nav and the sublevel
   nav show the location (clients – case studies): [http://www.cooper.com/content/clients/case_studies.asp](http://www.cooper.com/content/clients/case_studies.asp):
 * Is there a way to do this (my php skills are almost zero, but I know how I’d 
   style it in CSS if building flat pages) – a simple ‘if . . . then’ thing?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/location-aware-navigation/#post-167491)
 * Have you searched for ‘breadcrumbs’ ?
    I think that’s what you are after.
 *  Thread Starter [doodly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodly/)
 * (@doodly)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/location-aware-navigation/#post-167496)
 * It’s similar to breadcrumbs, but rather than the navigation buttons remaining
   unchanged whatever page you’re on, and the breadcrumbs showing you where you 
   are, I’d like the nav button for the page you’re in to be changed (different 
   color, bold . . whatever).
 * In flat HTML this is easy of course – just change the code for the page you’re
   in. But with a template-driven system like WP, it needs some dynamic cleverness
   to do it for you.
 * hope that’s a bit clearer.
 *  [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/location-aware-navigation/#post-167499)
 * wouldn’t you just add an id for the current and active page in the css?

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