Title: Adding css classes to parent elements
Last modified: November 10, 2022

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# Adding css classes to parent elements

 *  [levelupsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/levelupsa/)
 * (@levelupsa)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-css-classes-to-parent-elements/)
 * You can add css classes to parent elements with this code, place it inside you’re
   themes functions file.
 * function add_category_parent_css($css_classes, $category, $depth, $args){
    if(
   $args[‘has_children’]){ $css_classes[] = ‘cat-parent’; } return $css_classes;}
 * add_filter( ‘category_css_class’, ‘add_category_parent_css’, 10, 4);

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-css-classes-to-parent-elements/)
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