Title: Highlighting active term
Last modified: January 4, 2024

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# Highlighting active term

 *  Resolved [bhasic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhasic/)
 * (@bhasic)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlighting-active-term/)
 * Hello again,
 * I decided to use categories to display galleries of different topics. I don’t
   understand how to style or give an Id to current active category link in term_list.
   Here’s my code:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       [mla_term_list taxonomy=attachment_category parent=63 mla_link_href="{+page_url+}?term_slug={+slug+}" mla_rollover_text='\n' mla_output=flat show_count=true separator='  |  ']
   
       [mla_gallery post_parent=all orderby=date order=DESC attachment_category="{+template:({+request:term_slug+}|In English)+}" post_mime_type="image,video" posts_per_page=10 mla_nolink_text="Select a category."]
   
       [mla_gallery post_parent=all attachment_category="{+template:({+request:term_slug+}|In English)+}" posts_per_page=10 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next" mla_link_href="{+page_url+}?term_slug={+request:term_slug+}" post_mime_type="image,video" mla_style=km mla_markup=km]
       ```
   

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 *  Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
 * (@dglingren)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlighting-active-term/#post-17323373)
 * Thanks for your question, and thanks for including the full text of your shortcodes;
   very helpful.
 * In the current MLA version there is no way to highlight the current active term
   in an `[mla_term_list]` shortcode. However, you can achieve something similar
   by adding the term name to your term list URLs and adding a third `[mla_gallery]`
   shortcode to display a gallery heading. Here is a solution working well on my
   system:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       [mla_term_list taxonomy=attachment_category parent=63 mla_link_href="{+page_url+}?term_slug={+slug+}&current_name={+name,url+}" mla_rollover_text='\n' mla_output=flat show_count=true separator='  |  ']
   
       <h2>[mla_gallery ids=1 mla_nolink_text="{+template:(Items for category {+request:current_name+})+}"]</h2>
       ```
   
 * I hope that gives you an alternative solution for your application. I am marking
   this topic resolved, but please update it if you have problems or further questions
   regarding the solution outlined above. Thanks for your continued interest in 
   the plugin.

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