I’ve recently been developing sites for some family/friends. I had one person request highlighting the currently selected menu item. I had built a custom theme which used a navbear defined in the site wide hugo.toml . There were a few different solutions but I wanted to highlight the solution I ended up using for my use case. A dummy of my site directory set up is: content
|-- section1
|--_index.md
|--section1Post.md
|-- section2
|--_index.md
|--section2Post.md
|-- section3
|--_index.md
In my header partial I created a menu by looping over the entries in [[menu.main]] defined in the hugo.toml . It’s important here to end the url with a / . Hugo adds an ending / , to the urls of the pages that it creates. While this might not be necessary to make the hyperlink work, it will be necessary to get the highlighting correct. The definition of the menu looks like: