Title: How to remove the default css classes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# How to remove the default css classes

 *  [Alphard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphard/)
 * (@alphard)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-default-css-classes/)
 * I want to remove all the automatically added CSS classes to my menus (e.g. page-
   item, menu-item) since I’m using my own classes and I want to make the code smaller
   and cleaner. Any way to do it other than stripping them manually using something
   like preg_replace()?

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 *  Thread Starter [Alphard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphard/)
 * (@alphard)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-default-css-classes/#post-1655581)
 * Anyone?
 *  [loremipsum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loremipsum/)
 * (@loremipsum)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-default-css-classes/#post-1655830)
 * I’d also like to find that out.
 * WordPress is bloated with unnecessary markup. I wish there was an option to turn
   it off during installation.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [loremipsum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loremipsum/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-default-css-classes/#post-1655830)
 * Status: not resolved

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