{% assign navurl = site.url | append: site.baseurl | append: page.url %}

<!-- If this is a page with subitems, ensure the navurl variable properly redirects to /index.html -->
{% assign lastChar = navurl | slice: -1,1 %}
{% if lastChar == '/' %}
  {% assign navurl = navurl | append:'index.html' %}
{% endif %}

<ul class="pages">

{% for item in include.nav %}

    {% assign fullUrl = item.text %}

    <!-- Allows for custom url spec -->
    {% if item.url %}
      {% assign fullUrl = item.url %}
    {% endif %}
    {% assign fullUrl = fullUrl | slugify | prepend:include.base | absolute_url %}

    <!-- Properly redirect to index.html for pages with subitems -->
    {% if item.subitems %}
      {% assign fullUrl = fullUrl | append:'/index.html'  %}
    {% else %}
      {% assign fullUrl = fullUrl | append:'.html'  %}
    {% endif %}

    <li>
      <a href="{{ fullUrl }}" class="pages-li">
        {%- if navurl contains fullUrl -%}
          <b>
            {{ item.text }}
          </b>
        {% else %}
            {{ item.text }}
        {% endif %}

        {%- if item.subitems -%}
          <!-- Allows for skipping the "/" in menu.yml entries -->
          {% assign fullUrl = fullUrl | replace: "/index.html","" | append:"/" %}
          {%- include nav.html nav=item.subitems base=fullUrl -%}
        {% endif %}
      </a>
    </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>