Web templating (struts tiles) - best solution to indicate current page?

I would like to indicate the currently chosen page in a shared menu component of a web page in a Struts Tiles project.

I can think of some possible solutions

• check current URL
• call some Javascript to indicate
• possibly hooked into the tiles or struts config files and开发者_如何学Python read.

I'm sure this problem has been faced many times before. What is the best way of dealing with this?

Did you consider using struts-menu? It integrates nicely with Tiles if I remember well.

I used the following method:

tiles-des.xml

    <definition name=".basic.layout" path="/WEB-INF/jsps/basicLayout.jsp">
        <put name="title" value=""/>
        <put name="homeMenuClass" value=""/>
        <put name="forumMenuClass" value=""/>
        <put name="helpMenuClass" value=""/>
    </definition>

And in the same file set the appropriate menu class to "active" for differing tiles.

basicLayout.jsp

    <li class="<tiles:getAsString name="homeMenuClass"/>">...
    <li class="<tiles:getAsString name="forumMenuClass"/>">...
    <li class="<tiles:getAsString name="helpMenuClass"/>">...