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How to get active menu class in wordpress, I want to get it in one plugin to change menu style.

Just to clear, I do not want active menu element class.

<ul id="menu-scroll" class="nav-menu">
<li id="menu-item-1461" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1461"><a href="#home">Home</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-1462" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1462"><a href="#about">About</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-1463" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1463"><a href="#services">Services</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-1466" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1466"><a href="#team">Team</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-1468" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1468"><a href="#blog">Blog</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-1467" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1467"><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>

In this I want to get "nav-menu" or i want to set new class like 

<ul id="menu-scroll" class="my-nav-menu">

But not using themes file, I want to work it for all theme which is active.

Thanks In Advance, Ajay

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  • You can change it using js, just remove old class and replace it with your new class. – Vinod Dalvi Sep 5 '13 at 12:41
  • But how I know old class for different theme ? – Ajay Patel Sep 5 '13 at 12:45
  • There are standard class names for it codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/… but themes can modify it. – Vinod Dalvi Sep 5 '13 at 12:47
  • That is the question, I want active theme active menu get, set class/id. – Ajay Patel Sep 5 '13 at 12:50
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This is relatively easily done with a filter.

function alter_menu_class_wpse_113022($args) {
  // var_dump($args); // debug
  $args['menu_class'] = 'my-nav-menu';
  return $args;
}
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_args','alter_menu_class_wpse_113022');

That will make this line:

<ul id="menu-scroll" class="nav-menu">

Look like this one:

<ul id="menu-scroll" class="my-nav-menu">

But that could cause themes to break horribly. If a theme has used that class to apply styles to the menu, which would be a reasonable thing to do, you've just broken all of that styling. The effected menus will look terrible and may not even function. This is a very, very bad idea. Please don't do it.

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  • This code changes class of menu wrapper and not the class of ul tag. – Vinod Dalvi Sep 5 '13 at 13:11
  • What If I want to set new class ? – Ajay Patel Sep 5 '13 at 13:14
  • No. It doesn't. It changes the class of the ul tag. – s_ha_dum Sep 5 '13 at 13:20
  • @s_ha_dum I have checked it on twentythirteen theme and it's not adding class to ul instead it's adding class to ul wrapper div. – Vinod Dalvi Sep 5 '13 at 13:22
  • @VinodDalvi : I am looking at twentythirteen and it is inf fact changing the class on the ul and not the class on the surrounding div. I have no idea what you are looking at but I can alter that ul class very consistently by toggling that filter. – s_ha_dum Sep 5 '13 at 13:29
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This is the following safer way to add class to nav menu wrapper as it will not overwrite existing class.

function append_new_menu_class($args) {
  $args['menu_class'] = $args['menu_class'].' my-nav-menu';
  return $args;
}
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_args','append_new_menu_class');

The following code adds custom class to nav menu ul tag

function add_menuclass( $ulclass ) {
  return preg_replace( '/<ul>/', '<ul class="custom-class">', $ulclass, 1 );
}
add_filter( 'wp_page_menu', 'add_menuclass' );
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  • I have added it on plugin file even in theme file but not adding, :l ? – Ajay Patel Sep 5 '13 at 13:23
  • Yes, but that is not what the OP is asking for and it is a trivial edit to my answer anyway. – s_ha_dum Sep 5 '13 at 13:26
  • @s_ha_dum I have added code for adding class to nav menu wrapper and also to nav menu ul. – Vinod Dalvi Sep 5 '13 at 13:46

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