Allow html tags in WordPress Custom Menus Description Field

Question

I added descriptions to my menus using this post, Menu items description?. However I need to be able to use html tags and WordPress is stripping them out. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You can remove the filter by adding this to your functions.php file:

remove_filter('nav_menu_description', 'strip_tags');

Answer 2

In new wordpress we need add some mojo:

remove_filter('nav_menu_description', 'strip_tags');
add_filter( 'wp_setup_nav_menu_item', 'cus_wp_setup_nav_menu_item' );
function cus_wp_setup_nav_menu_item($menu_item) {
                $menu_item->description = apply_filters('nav_menu_description',  $menu_item->post_content );
                return $menu_item;
}