Title: Parent terms returns empty markup
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Parent terms returns empty markup

 *  [kmavrov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmavrov/)
 * (@kmavrov)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-terms-returns-empty-markup/)
 * Hi there … I am trying to get only top level terms from hierarchical taxonomy
   called “City”. It works fine in a way, but it outputs extra elements…
 *     ```
       <ul> <?php
       $cities = get_terms( 'city' , array(
       			          'parent'     => 0,
       			          'orderby'    => 'name',
       			          'order'      => 'ASC',
       			          'hide_empty' => true
       			           ));
       			foreach ($cities as $city) { ?>
       			<li><a href="<?php echo get_term_link( $city, 'city' ); ?>" class="button radius"><?php echo $city->name; ?></a><li>
       			<?php } ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * Which retuns only 2 cities (and each of them has several child terms)
    The returned
   HTML looks like this:
 *     ```
       <ul>
               <li> ... correct data about term 1 </li>
               <li>
   
               </li>
               <li> ... correct data about term 2 </li>
               <li>
   
               </li>
       </ul>
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-terms-returns-empty-markup/)
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