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I am following this answer to make smooth page switches: Rendering JSON objects using a Django template after an Ajax call

How do I make Django understand, that I'm on the other page already?

I want the list element to obtain 'active' class and to have /leaders/ in browser url path when I click on the link and load leaderboard template. Say i have:

leaderboard.html:

<li{% if path == leaders %} class="active"{% endif %}>  
   <a href="/leaders/">Leaderboard</a>
</li>

urls.py:

url(r'^leaders/$', 'index.views.leaderboard', name='leaders'),

view:

def leaderboard(request):
  ...
  if request.is_ajax():
    return_str = render_block_to_string('leaderboard.html', 'block_name', context)
    return HttpResponse(return_str)
  else:
    response = render_to_response('leaderboard.html', context)
    return response

Edit: I've tried to use window.history.pushState, it changed url in browser, but did not tell anything to django.

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  • See broweserstate/history.js on GitHub. Commented Jun 27, 2015 at 18:04
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    You don't have to tell Django. You have to tell your html/css, which Django has absolutely nothing to do with after it has initially rendered the template. Commented Jun 27, 2015 at 19:24
  • stackoverflow.com/a/1468/3033586 Commented Jun 28, 2015 at 8:07
  • @SeledkaLebedka When you change the URL, you'll need to issue an AJAX request to tell Django in order to get new data. Commented Jun 28, 2015 at 9:39
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