Wordpress Custom Menus

[NubPro]

I'm having a huge problems with WordPress >< it's soooo frustrating gossssssh...here's my problem:
I need to add a specific class(.active) into a Menu(just one, eg: 'home') on every different pages. Which mean if you go to home.php, the Menu is going to add .active < class into the code of home < Navigation Menu

If you're in about.php, then the code will automatically generate .active class into about < NAV
The thing is I'm so confused about where to start >< the API and documentation are driving me craaaaaaaaaaaazy so I'm wondering if anyone who is great enough and know the solution to my problem, please REPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPLY :d

ps I don't know what to Google >< athough I did, it didn't gave me the right answer

 

[Caustik]

This may help:
jquery - Twitter Bootstrap add active class to li - Stack Overflow

 

[NubPro]

Thanks for the response, but I couldn't understand how it works

/*menu handler*/ $(function(){ function stripTrailingSlash(str) { if(str.substr(-1) == '/') { return str.substr(0, str.length - 1); } return str; } var url = window.location.pathname; var activePage = stripTrailingSlash(url); $('.nav li a').each(function(){ var currentPage = stripTrailingSlash($(this).attr('href')); if (activePage == currentPage) { $(this).parent().addClass('active'); } }); });

what's the meaning of Bootstrap?

 

[EliteGM]

If I'm right, that there JS strips the URL of it's trailing "/" if present, and then checks every a.nav whether it corresponds with the current URL. If so, you know what page you're on.

 

[NubPro]

which I have no idea about that >< I work on that later

 

[Caustik]

The guy who asked the question was using bootstrap but I'm sure you could customise it

 

[Ron]

Just make a custom plugin for Wordpress and initiate the plugin in the location you want it to show up at? I'm not sure whats so hard about this.

That or just modify the theme files directly if its a permanent change.