{"id":954508,"date":"2009-01-10T02:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/highlight-parent-nav-link-when-on-child-page\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T03:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:10:31","slug":"highlight-parent-nav-link-when-on-child-page","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/highlight-parent-nav-link-when-on-child-page\/","title":{"rendered":"highlight “parent” nav link when on “child” page"},"content":{"rendered":"

hello.<\/p>\n

when i’m on a “child” page i would like the “parent” in the navigation to be highlighted\/active.<\/p>\n

the theme i’m using has it’s own navigation.php page. here is the code:<\/p>\n

<div id="menu">\n<ul id="nav">\n<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1'); ?>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/code><\/pre>\n
could someone point me in the right direction?<\/p>\n
thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-954508","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-active","topic-tag-child","topic-tag-navigation","topic-tag-parent"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/954508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/954508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}