How to highlight menu items in Yii2 depending on the open page?

Question

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Here's how on the Toaster, for example:

Answer 1

echo Nav::widget([
    'activateItems' => true,
    'items' => [
        [
            'label' => 'Home',
            'url' => ['site/index'],
            'linkOptions' => [...],
        ],
        [
            'label' => 'Dropdown',
            'items' => [
                 ['label' => 'Level 1 - Dropdown A', 'url' => '#'],
                 '<li class="divider"></li>',
                 '<li class="dropdown-header">Dropdown Header</li>',
                 ['label' => 'Level 1 - Dropdown B', 'url' => '#'],
            ],
        ],
        [
            'label' => 'Login',
            'url' => ['site/login'],
            'visible' => Yii::$app->user->isGuest
        ],
    ],
    'options' => ['class' =>'nav-pills'], // set this to nav-tab to get tab-styled navigation
]);

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