How do I remove UL on wp_nav_menu?

Question

I search on this site and found many answers for this question. Most of them is not working on my theme.

Here is a one solution I found and it's working according to my need.

function wp_nav_menu_no_ul()
{
    $options = array(
        'echo' => false,
        'container' => false,
        'theme_location' => 'primary'
    );

    $menu = wp_nav_menu($options);
    echo preg_replace(array(
        '#^<ul[^>]*>#',
        '#</ul>$#'
    ), '', $menu);

}

This code will remove ul at beginning and the end of wp_nav_menu(). So in my theme I just write

<ul class="primary-nav">
<?php  wp_nav_menu_no_ul(); ?>
</ul>

But the problem is coming again when I do not add or activate any menu via admin. http://domain.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php

Question :

How do I remove the <div><ul>**</ul></div> whether the menu is active or not. Let me know

---

Finally I got it worked :) functions.php

function wp_nav_menu_no_ul()
{
    $options = array(
        'echo' => false,
        'container' => false,
        'theme_location' => 'primary',
        'fallback_cb'=> 'default_page_menu'
    );

    $menu = wp_nav_menu($options);
    echo preg_replace(array(
        '#^<ul[^>]*>#',
        '#</ul>$#'
    ), '', $menu);

}

function default_page_menu() {
   wp_list_pages('title_li=');
} 

header.php

<ul class="primary-nav">
<?php  wp_nav_menu_no_ul(); ?>
</ul>

Answer 1

The function wp_nav_menu takes an argument of fallback_cb which is the name of the function to run if the menu doesn't exist. so change you code to something like this:

function wp_nav_menu_no_ul()
{
    $options = array(
        'echo' => false,
        'container' => false,
        'theme_location' => 'primary',
        'fallback_cb'=> 'fall_back_menu'
    );

    $menu = wp_nav_menu($options);
    echo preg_replace(array(
        '#^<ul[^>]*>#',
        '#</ul>$#'
    ), '', $menu);

}

function fall_back_menu(){
    return;
}

you can even remove the container from the menu and do other stuff with some more arguments sent to the wp_nav_menu function

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Actually, WordPress supports this by default:

wp_nav_menu(array(
    'items_wrap' => '%3$s'
));

The default for items_wrap is <ul id=\"%1$s\" class=\"%2$s\">%3$s</ul>.

Answer 3

The below code should simple do it.

<?php 

  $my_menu = array( 
  'menu' => 'main-menu',
  'container' => '',
  'items_wrap' => '%3$s' 
  );

  wp_nav_menu( $my_menu );

?>

Reference this link for the wp_nav_menu function http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu

Answer 4

If you want to print only <a> tags, you may go this way:

$primaryMenu = array(
    'theme_location'  => 'primary',
    'menu'            => '',
    'container'       => '',
    'container_class' => false,
    'container_id'    => '',
    'menu_class'      => 'menu',
    'menu_id'         => 'primary-menu',
    'echo'            => false,
    'fallback_cb'     => 'wp_page_menu',
    'before'          => '',
    'after'           => '',
    'link_before'     => '',
    'link_after'      => '',
    'depth'           => 0,
    'walker'          => ''
);
echo strip_tags( wp_nav_menu( $primaryMenu ), '<a>' );

Answer 5

For me what worked was this:

<?php wp_nav_menu( array(
       'container' => '',
       'items_wrap' => '%3$s' 
) ); ?>

Hope it helps.

Answer 6

I know that this answer is not completely for this question but there are so many people who come to know how to remove ul and li tag in WordPress and add another tag in WordPress.

Like before applying my code WordPress gives these types of output in menu

<ul class="*****"><li>abc</li></ul>

But someone wants to change ul into div and li into a tag then you should use below code

            <?php

                $menuParameters = array(
                    'menu' => 'primary_menu',
                    'link_before'     => '<span>',
                    'link_after'      => '</span>',
                    'before'        => '<div class="tp-primary-header mui-top-home">',
                    'after'     => '</div>',
                    'container'       => false,
                    'echo'            => false,
                    'depth'           => 0,
                );

                echo strip_tags(wp_nav_menu( $menuParameters ), '<a><span><div>' );
                ?>

This gives output in the following format

<div class="tp-primary-header mui-top-home"><a href="#"><span>ABC</span></a></div>
<div class="tp-primary-header mui-top-home"><a href="#"><span>def</span></a></div>
<div class="tp-primary-header mui-top-home"><a href="#"><span>XYZ</span></a></div>

Answer 7

<?php
$params = array(
    'theme_location' => 'menu_location',
    'container' => false,
    'echo' => false,
    'items_wrap' => '%3$s',
);

echo strip_tags(wp_nav_menu($params), '<a>');
?>