This tutorial is about how to highlight the currently active page in your navigation with Thymeleaf and Spring Boot. Highlighting the active page is a known usability pattern and should help users to find their way around your web application. Consider this example: In the navigation above, the navigation item “Cronjob Monitoring” is highlighted. The menu is generated with this Thymeleaf code: <nav class="mdl-navigation"> <a th:classappend="${#request.requestURI.startsWith(navItem.getLink()) ? 'mdl-navigation__link-active':''}" th:each="navItem: ${navigation}" th:id="${navItem.getIdentifier()}" class="mdl-navigation__link" th:href="@{${navItem.getLink()}}" th:text="${navItem.getName()}"></a> </nav> By using th:each, a link ...
