So today I started work on my first Wordpress theme and so far it's been a lot of fun. However, I have had difficulty in getting wp_nav_menu() to do what I want.
Here's what I want:
<nav id="topnav" class="menu">
<ul>
<li class="current_page_item"><a href="#" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-2"><a href="#" title="About">About</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
Looking in the documentation, I would expect the following call to do what I want:
<?php wp_nav_menu(array( 'container' => 'nav', 'container_id' => 'topnav' )); ?>
But instead I get this:
<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li class="current_page_item"><a href="#" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-2"><a href="#" title="About">About</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
To me it looks like my custom parameters are being ignored as the output from wp_nav_menu()
is exactly the same. Is there something I need to turn on somewhere to enable this or is there something else going on?
EDIT
Curiously, if I change menu_class
it alters the div's class (I expected the div to be the container) but changing menu_id
does nothing.
EDIT 2
Even going into nav-menu-template.php and changing the defaults for container, container_id, container_class, menu_id does nothing. Changing menu_class to yyy will change the div's class from menu to yyy.