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Set parent list item of dropdown link to active with jQuery / JavaScript (ASP.NET)

This is my menu
<ul class="sidebar-menu" id="navigation-menu">
<li class="active"><a class="nav-link" href="/"><i class="fas fa-home"></i><span>Home Page</span></a></li>
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<i class="fas fa-cog"></i><span>Configuration</span>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a class="nav-link" href="/Configuration/AccountCodes">Account Codes</a></li>
<li><a class="nav-link" href="/Configuration/Branches">Branches</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<i class="fas fa-person-booth"></i><span>Directory</span>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a class="nav-link" href="/Directory/Users?Role=Administrator">Administrators</a></li>
<li><a class="nav-link" href="/Directory/Users?Role=Manager">Managers</a></li>
<li><a class="nav-link" href="/Directory/Users?Role=Agent">Agents</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
This is my Jquery, when I select AccountCodes which is under the Configuration dropdown, it should only set the parent list item active. However, the Directory parent is set to active as well. I'm not sure how to select it directly.
Also, due to the structure of my URL, I am unable to continue to use endWith. Is there an alternate method of setting an active class based on the url? Currently, if I select AccountCodes or Branches, it correctly sets the Configuration dropdown item as active. However, If I select agent, nothing is selected at all due to its url ending with a ?Agent instead of Users
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
var current = location.pathname;
console.log(current);
$("#navigation-menu a").each(function () {
var $this = $(this);
console.log($this.attr('href'));
if ($this.attr('href').endsWith(current)) {
console.log($this.parent());
$this.parent().addClass('active');
console.log("matched");
}
});
if ($(".dropdown-menu li").hasClass("active")) {
console.log("Yes");
var $this = $(this);
$(".dropdown-menu li").prev().parent().parent().addClass('active');
console.log($(".dropdown-menu li").closest(".nav-item dropdown"));
}
});
</script>

There would be two ways to mark only the parent link as active.
1. With jQuery
The advantage of this is that it will be compatible with any back end platform.
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
var current = location.pathname;
console.log(current);
$("#navigation-menu a").each(function () {
var $this = $(this);
var link = $this.attr('href');
console.log(link);
// Remove the query string parameters by finding their starting position
var indexOfQueryString = link.lastIndexOf("?");
link = link.substring(0, indexOfQueryString);
if (link.endsWith(current)) {
console.log("matched");
if ($this.parent().parent().hasClass('.dropdown-menu')) {
var parentLink = $this.closest('.dropdown');
console.log("Setting parent link as active:", parentLink);
// Find the closest parent link and add active class
parentLink.addClass('active');
} else {
console.log("Setting link as active: ", $this.parent());
$this.parent().addClass('active');
}
}
});
});
</script>
In this case, as you have mentioned you encountered problems with ?Agent being present in link – this is what we refer to as query string parameters, which we can safely remove by searching for the unencoded question mark. This is already considered in the solution.
2. With ASP.NET MVC
Doing this in the back end would be more robust and should JavaScript be disabled by the user, this functionality will still work in your website. The disadvantage though, as you might have guessed, is that it is platform-dependent.
There are many ways of going about this. For your specific use-case, as your dropdown links are related to the parent by area, I have adapted another SO answer to cover your specific use-case:
public static string IsSelected(this HtmlHelper html, string area = "", string cssClass = "active")
{
ViewContext viewContext = html.ViewContext;
RouteValueDictionary routeValues = viewContext.RouteData.Values;
string currentArea = routeValues["area"] as string;
return area.Equals(currentArea) ? cssClass : String.Empty;
}
Then use it this way:
<ul class="sidebar-menu" id="navigation-menu">
<li><a asp-area="" asp-controller="Home" asp-action="Index" class="nav-link"><i class="fas fa-home"></i><span>Home
Page</span></a></li>
<li class="nav-item dropdown #Html.IsSelected(area: "Configuration")">
<i class="fas fa-cog"></i><span>Configuration</span>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a asp-area="Configuration" asp-controller="AccountCodes" asp-action="Index" class="nav-link">Account
Codes</a></li>
<li><a asp-area="Configuration" asp-controller="Branches" asp-action="Index" class="nav-link">Branches</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="nav-item dropdown #Html.IsSelected(area: "Directory")">
<i class="fas fa-person-booth"></i><span>Directory</span>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a asp-area="Directory" asp-controller="Users" asp-action="Index" asp-route-Role="Administrator"
class="nav-link">Administrators</a></li>
<li><a asp-area="Directory" asp-controller="Users" asp-action="Index" asp-route-Role="Manager"
class="nav-link">Managers</a></li>
<li><a asp-area="Directory" asp-controller="Users" asp-action="Index" asp-route-Role="Agent"
class="nav-link">Agents</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Would this benefit you, please make sure to upvote the other linked answer as well.

Active one main menu at a time hide others

please take a look at the image, here I am tried to do
If I click on "Fan Panels" The other two menus will be visible. Which is currently working fine. and here three menus will be visible.
If I click on "Entertain Art" menu the "Score Art" and "Fan Panels" need to be hidden, but the "Entertain Art" still need to show.
If I click on "Score Art" the "Fan Panels" and "Entertain Art" menu need to hidden, but the "Score Art" still need to show.
If you think about the code here it is :
{{#each categories}}
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link" href="{{url}}" title="{{name}}">{{name}}</a>
</li>
{/each}}
The website is under preview mode
Tts Big-commerce so menu displaying frontend with the dynamic syntax I think we can do it with javascript and jquery to find text and hide them what you suggest?
FOR EXAMPLE CODE:
<ul id="primeNav" class="nav-list nav-list--prime">
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link" href="#" title="Fan Panels">Fan Panels</a>
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link" href="#" title="Entertain Art">Entertain Art</a>
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link" href="#" title="Score Art">Score Art</a>
</ul>
Thanks in Advance

You can try this code alternatively -
Edit 3 -
Here's the newly updated code
/* Conditional Page Options */
var url = window.location.href;
var url = url.replace(/\//g, '');
var sub_url = location.protocol + location.host;
var page = url.replace(sub_url, '');
/* conditional click actions */
if (page == "entertain-art") {
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item").hide();
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item:nth-child(2)").show(); // revised
} else if (page == "score-art") {
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item").hide();
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item:nth-child(3)").show(); // revised
} else {
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item-link").on('click', function() {
var index = $(".nav-list__item-link").index(this);
if (index == 0) {
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item").show();
} else {
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item").hide();
$(this).parent().show();
}
});
}
$("#primeNav .nav-list__item:nth-child(4)").show(); // revised
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="primeNav" class="nav-list nav-list--prime">
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link" href="#" title="Fan Panels">Fan Panels</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link" href="#" title="Entertain Art">Entertain Art</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link" href="#" title="Score Art">Score Art</a>
</li>
</ul>

try it.
**UPDATE* : without adding new class name
//Without any new class name
$("#primeNav li").click(function(){
if($(this).text().trim()!="Fan Panels") //For Point 1, if click on FanPanel then show all
{
$("#primeNav li").hide(); // hide all item
$(this).show(); // Show item which is clicked
}
})
//Added **menu** as classname to all anchor tag, also added another unique class name to handle individual.
//Older try
$(".menu2").click(function(){
console.log($(this).text());
if($(this).hasClass("menuFan")==false) //For Point 1, if click on FanPanel then show all
{
$(".menu").hide(); // hide all item
$(this).show(); // Show item which is clicked
}
})
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="primeNav" class="nav-list nav-list--prime">
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link menu menuFan" href="#" title="Fan Panels">Fan Panels</a>
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link menu menuEnt" href="#" title="Entertain Art">Entertain Art</a>
<li class="nav-list__item">
<a class="nav-list__item-link menu menuScore" href="#" title="Score Art">Score Art</a>
</ul>

Create a menu file with dynamic tabs

I am trying to make my website's menu in one file only and just include it in the rest of the .html pages. I am copy and pasting the menu each time I make a new page because I want the tab that is active to be highlighted for each different page. This is the reason why I can't make one file only for every page, and I have no idea how can I make it work to set the tab active in each different page.
This is the code I am copy-pasting in each page.
<!-- BEGIN MENU -->
<section id="menu-area">
<nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
<div class="container">
<div id="navbar" class="navbar-collapse collapse">
<ul id="top-menu" class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right main-nav">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Downloads</li>
<li>Media</li>
<li class="dropdown"><a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle"
data-toggle="dropdown">Research <span
class="fa fa-angle-down"></span></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
<li>D3</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Team</li>
<li class="active">Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
<!--/.nav-collapse -->
<a href="#" id="search-icon"> <i class="fa fa-search"> </i>
</a>
</div>
</nav>
</section>
<!-- END MENU -->
In this case the contact tab is highlighted:
<li class="active">Contact</li>
If the case is that the home page is active, then I would need to do this:
<li class="active">Home</li>
I hope I made myself clear, my English is terrible. I appreciate any idea, I am really new at web development.

One thing you can do is to read the URL and on base of that you add the active class to that link in your menu.
$(function() {
var pgurl = window.location.href.substr(window.location.href
.lastIndexOf("/")+1);
$("#nav ul li a").each(function(){
if($(this).attr("href") == pgurl || $(this).attr("href") == '' )
$(this).addClass("active");
})
});

Using D3
<script>
var pgUrl = window.location.href.substr(window.location.href.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
d3.select("#navbar").selectAll("a").each(function(d){
if(d.tecode here == pgUrl )
d.attr("class","active");
});
</script>

I think this way more useful:
$(function(){
var pgUrl = window.location.href.substr(window.location.href.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
$("#nav ul li a[href='"+ pgUrl +"']").addClass('active');
});

Collapsing multiple navbar bootstrap

I have followed this example http://jsfiddle.net/rDN3P/98/ to create a collapsing navbar. It is working fine as long as I have one level in my menu. The collapsing seems not to work if I have multiple level of menu.
In this example, if you open the collapsible menu and click on the second 'dropdown2' item in the menu you will know what I mean.
This structure is the issue I assume
<li class="dropdown">
Dropdown <span class="caret"></span>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
<li class="dropdown">
<a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
Dropdown2
<span class="caret"></span>
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
<li>Action sub</li>
</ul>
</li>

Solved: jsfiddle
Based on this answer to add the third level menu with a little modification of the js code to close the third level menu on click:
$('ul.dropdown-menu [data-toggle=dropdown]').on('click', function(event) {
// Avoid following the href location when clicking
event.preventDefault();
// Avoid having the menu to close when clicking
event.stopPropagation();
// If a menu is already open we close it
if($(this).parent().hasClass('open')){
$('ul.dropdown-menu [data-toggle=dropdown]').parent().removeClass('open');
}else{
// opening the one you clicked on
$(this).parent().addClass('open');
var menu = $(this).parent().find("ul");
var menupos = menu.offset();
if ((menupos.left + menu.width()) + 30 > $(window).width()) {
var newpos = - menu.width();
} else {
var newpos = $(this).parent().width();
}
menu.css({ left:newpos });
}
});

<li class="dropdown">
Dropdown <span class="caret"></span>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li class="dropdown-submenu">
<a href="#">
Dropdown2
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
<li>Action sub</li>
</ul>
</li>
The nesting should be done properly I guess, with the correct classes.

Redirecting to Different Routes using Data-Groups

I would like to redirect about and contacts to their "proper page" when they get clicked, e.g. clicking on about should redirect to about.html.
It does work quite well with magazine, books and talks, since I just want them to redirect to index.html when clicked.
This is my html code:
<div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
<ul id="filter">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li><a href="#" data-group="magazine">
<span class="span-text">Magazine</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#" data-group="books">
<span class="span-text">Books</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#" data-group="talks">
<span class="span-text">Talks</span></a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">
<span class="span-text">About</span></a></li>
<li><a href=mailto:info#enyamoore.com>
<span class="span-text">Contact</span></a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>
Js:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
/* initialize shuffle plugin */
var $grid = $('#grid');
$grid.shuffle({
itemSelector: '.item' // the selector for the items in the grid
});
/* reshuffle when user clicks a filter item */
$('#filter a').click(function (e) {
// set active class
$('#filter a').removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
// get group name from clicked item
var groupName = $(this).attr('data-group');
// reshuffle grid
$grid.shuffle('shuffle', groupName );
});
});
</script>
Have you any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

This is should be a simple fix, you only have to put a back slash in front of the page. Note that #/about.html will not work. For the "using data-groups" part could you be a bit more specific? That might affect this answer.