Title: Remove 'Primary Menu' button
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Remove 'Primary Menu' button

 *  Resolved [tecombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecombs/)
 * (@tecombs)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/)
 * Greetings:
 * I have the typical horizontal navigation menu (HNM) at the bottom of my header,
   but need to know how to remove the button without making my HNM disappear.
 * As it is now, the button is all but covered by my header graphic and HNM. You
   can barely see it, but we can’t have that.
 * Would some kindly WP Guru provide the help that you do so well, please?
 * TIA,
    Dave

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 *  [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/)
 * (@lorro)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/#post-7099867)
 * Please post the url to your site.
 *  Thread Starter [tecombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecombs/)
 * (@tecombs)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/#post-7099869)
 * I appreciate your offer to help, however the site is still on my computer and
   has not been released into the wild yet. 🙂
 * Here’s the code in question. If I knew how to apply css to the button, I’ve tried
   but haven’t figure it out yet, I’d put the button somewhere around -9999px to
   the left.
 * The following resides in the header.php of an underscores theme.
 * <nav id=”site-navigation” class=”main-navigation” role=”navigation”>
    <button
   class=”menu-toggle” aria-controls=”primary-menu” aria-expanded=”false”><?php 
   esc_html_e( ‘Primary Menu’, ‘threestrikes’ ); ?></button> <?php wp_nav_menu( 
   array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ) ); ?> </nav><!– #site-navigation –>
 * I even tried erasing it but my HNM disappeared also. Cain’t have that!
 *  [Digico Paris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digico-paris/)
 * (@digico-paris)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/#post-7099870)
 * [@tecombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecombs/)
 * Hi, two quick ideas to fix your issue:
 * 1) layer depth in CSS doesn’t always work, try rather to use CSS “display:none;”
   on the class or id of the button or html element
 * 2) navigation menus are defined in functions of main theme, so if you want to
   add or change the way nav locations behave, it’s rather in your theme’s functions
   file or child one to do it the “clean” way
 * Hope it helps,
 *  Thread Starter [tecombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecombs/)
 * (@tecombs)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/#post-7099879)
 * Paris, your recommendation did the trick. I wrote to the id and poof, gone, gasphinkto,
   nada.
 * Nice. It sure helps to another pair of eyes.
 * Thanks.
 *  [Digico Paris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digico-paris/)
 * (@digico-paris)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/#post-7099883)
 * You’re welcome,
 * After the CSS trick is fast, but bear in mind it’s better to do it well in php
   aka functions.php or so (plus css is not quite so so for SEO, because you might
   hide it with CSS but it remains in page code html render).
 *  Thread Starter [tecombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecombs/)
 * (@tecombs)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/#post-7099911)
 * And therein lies the problem, huh?
 * I’d sure like to know that code but do have the skills … yet.
 * Thanks again nonetheless Paris. I’m not all that concerned about SEO just now,
   not with this site.
 * Ciao.
 *  Thread Starter [tecombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecombs/)
 * (@tecombs)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-primary-menu-button/#post-7099983)
 * I scooped up this kill routine from LearnWebCode. It stomps and kills thoroughly
   and completely just about any stubborn “whatever” that doesn’t respond to low
   level efforts.
 * .your class-here {
    position: absolute; height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden;
   visibility: hidden; }

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