multiple menus and menu.inc [#2159859]

Greetings,

The menu tree classes and ID defined in menu.inc menu_tree are applied to every menu which is bad because the main menu usually has some special css and effects that for example are not desirable in a custom footer or sidebar menu. Can menu.inc be updated to ONLY apply to main menu? Can you help me rewrite this snippet:

function webmarket_menu_tree(&$variables){
    return '<ul class="my class">' . $variables['tree'] . '</ul>';
}

So that it applies to ONLY the main menu and not all other menus on the site? Many thanks! Kevin

Comments

Comment #1

shadcn CreditAttribution: shadcn commented 19 December 2013 at 20:26

Yep. In template.php, you can add this code snippet inside the template_preprocess_page implementation.

function THEMENAME_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
  // Format and add main menu to theme.
  $variables['main_menu'] = menu_tree(variable_get('menu_main_links_source', 'main-menu'));
  $variables['main_menu']['#theme_wrappers'] = array('menu_tree__my_custom_nav');
}

then in menu.inc add this function:

/**
 * Implements theme_menu_tree__my_custom_nav().
 */
function THEMENAME_menu_tree__my_custom_nav(&$variables) {
  return '<ul class="my class">' . $variables['tree'] . '</ul>';
}

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Comment #2

pyxio CreditAttribution: pyxio commented 19 December 2013 at 20:44

awesome. thanks for this! cheers Kevin

Comment #3

pyxio CreditAttribution: pyxio commented 27 December 2013 at 15:38

I just had a chance to test this. Unfortunately... this does not work. all menus remain the same with the same markup as default drupal main menu. I know this has something to do with D7 problematic menu structures. I am wondering if better is to totally remove menu.inc from the theme but then i am not sure how to deal with menus. The fact is, other menus on site in sidebars and footer cannot inherit same styles as main menu. So this is a dilemma. Probably your approach is good but maybe the code has a bug somewhere. I definitely appreciate all of your help over the months and the great theme. Thanks Kevin