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So, I have 2 questions, hope someone can shed light on.

1. is it possible to use a category loop for navigation, and highlight the active state?

For example:

{exp:channel:categories channel="article" show_empty="no" style="linear"}
  <li class="{if segment_2 == "category"}selected{/if}"><a href="http://{path=%27articles/index%27}" title="{category_name}">{category_name}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:categories}

Obviously the above is a fail, but you can get an idea of what I am trying to do. The only way I can figure how to pull this off is to hard code each entry. Which defeats the purpose of the loop.

2. Is there a way or method to get the current url?

Here is my situation, I have a newsletter signup form (freeform pro) in the footer of the page. this is an include (embed=embeds/.footer) - and I cannot get freeform pro to stay in one spot upon validation. it always jump to the top of the page. So I have added the from validation error at the top of the page, however, freeform requires a return page for errors. I’d like to keep the user on the same page.

The line of code in question is:

inline_error_return="home"

Home needs to be like “current URL”

Is this at all possible?

Thanks

it looks like: 

{path='{segment_1}/{segment_2}/{segment_3}/{segment_4}/{segment_5}/{segment_6}'}

works is current url. Ha!

I usually just do:

<li {if segment_3==category_url_title}class="active_cat"{/if}>

Adjust segment as necessary.

There is also: {current_url} as a standard global variable.