How to get the top menu highlighted in joomla front page

Sometimes certain things is pretty easy actually, but often times when you don’t realize it you’ll end up trying silly remedies rather then the most obvious.

Things that falls into this category includes when you need to get the top menu or any menu in Joomla highlighted when you first load your website.

Some forums suggested change the global cache to no cache. I on the other hand was considering to use conditional statements.

but the simple answer for joomla 1.5 is the default page is indicated by a yellow star…

You can practically apply this on a any menu. Just set any menu link as a default and joomla will assign active_menu-nav to that link.