Home/Index page not picking up on frontmatter .param

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I’m trying to set a class="active" attribute on the appropriate navbar item on each of my pages, so I can style accordingly.

In the frontmatter of each page, I set a .param section="XXXX"

My navbar code is like this [simplified for clarity]:

<nav id="navbar">
<ul>
    <li class="navbarbutton {{ if eq .Params.section "index"}}active{{end}}"><a href="/">HOME</a></li>
    <li class="navbarbutton {{ if eq .Params.section "services"}}active{{end}}" ><a  href="/services">SERVICES</a></li>
    <li class="navbarbutton  {{ if eq .Params.section "portfolio"}}active{{end}}" ><a href="/portfolio">PORTFOLIO</a></li>
    <li class="navbarbutton  {{ if eq .Params.section "downloads"}}active{{end}}"  ><a href="/downloads">DOWNLOADS</a></li>
... etc...
</ul>
</nav>

It works fine. The active class gets added as appropriate on every page –except for the homepage.

I know that the homepage is treated slightly differently with regards things like templating, etc. So I’m wondering if that has anything to do with it? Does the homepage access .params differently too?

2

As far as I know is the homepage only a template, index.html to be precise. But you can check if the current page is the homepage by using the .IsHome variable.

Your syntax would be

<li class="navbarbutton {{ if .IsHome}}active{{end}}"><a href="/">HOME</a></li>
3

Yeah. that’s what I’d done as a workaround. But I’m still curious as to why the frontmatter .param isn’t returning any value on the homepage. The navbar is in a partial which is included on the other template pages [including the index.html one] and the index.md file has the appropriate section="index" param in the frontmatter.