In Wordpress (3.0.1), if I use the GUI to update the Main Menu to include an item called News:
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URL: /news/
Navigation Label: News
Title Attribute: news
**
the News item shows up in my menu. Great. But when I click on it and navigate to the /news/ page, WordPress does not add a current_menu_item class to the <li>.
Nor does it give the <li> menu item an id or a name of "news" - instead it's called something unhelpful like "menu-item-899".
Why doesn't WordPress just add the current_menu_item class? Surely it has all the information it needs to do this? </grumble>
And given the above, how can I style the <li> item to show that it is the current item? I really don't want to have to use jquery to look at the page name and match it to arbitrarily-named ids... is that my only option?