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1. MaxB.
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hello WordPress Community,
   I'm currently coding a theme and trying to change the output of wp_nav_menu. At the end of the class I need something like "current_menu_item + $id (of menu item)".
   Here is an example:
   My code before
   

   <div id="mainmenu" class="navigation">
   <ul id=\"menu-main\" class=\"menu\">
   <li id="menu-item-170" class="menu-item menu-item-type-taxonomy menu-item-object-category current-menu-item menu-item-170"><a title="2" href="http://127.0.0.1/wp/?cat=17">Comedy</a></li>
   </ul>
   </div>

   and this is what i want to get:
   

   <div id="mainmenu" class="navigation">
   <ul id=\"menu-main\" class=\"menu\">
   <li id="menu-item-170" class="menu-item menu-item-type-taxonomy menu-item-object-category current-menu-item menu-item-170 current-menu-item-170"><a title="2" href="http://127.0.0.1/wp/?cat=17">Comedy</a></li>
   </ul>
   </div>

   So i need a simple current-menu-item-170 at the end.
   So my question is how to do that.
   I tried a bit around with function start_el.
   Thanks in advance.

2. Digital Raindrops
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Not sure what you mean just use wp_nav_menu() as this already returns the menu items like:

   current-menu-item is the selected (active) item so you cannot use that as it will change as the visitor navigates.

   Each item will have the page ID 'menu-item-3367' or category 'cat-item-3', so you could add a class if you know these.
   

   .cat-item-3 {
      color: #ff0000;
   }

   If the visitor selected a sub menu then you have
   Top Level:
   menu-item-3367 current-menu-ancestor current-menu-parent

   Then the sub menus
   menu-item-2993 current-menu-item

   There is a class for .firstchild but not first or last, so you can only style the last item by id

   If your theme supports custom menus then just create a custom menu and use a theme location or <?php wp_nav_menu( array('menu' => 'My Menu' )); ?> to call your menu and return the menu items already formatted.

   There is also arguments where you enter your own classes and add styles 'before' and 'after'

   HTH

   David

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