function theme_menu_item

4.6 menu.inc theme_menu_item($mid, $children = '', $leaf = TRUE)
4.7 menu.inc theme_menu_item($mid, $children = '', $leaf = TRUE)
5 menu.inc theme_menu_item($mid, $children = '', $leaf = TRUE)
6 menu.inc theme_menu_item($link, $has_children, $menu = '', $in_active_trail = FALSE, $extra_class = NULL)

Generate the HTML output for a menu item and submenu.

Related topics

Default theme implementations
Functions and templates that present output to the user, and can be implemented by themes.
Menu system
Define the navigation menus, and route page requests to code based on URLs.
1 theme call to theme_menu_item()
menu_tree_output in includes/menu.inc
Returns a rendered menu tree.

File

includes/menu.inc, line 1151
API for the Drupal menu system.

Code

function theme_menu_item($link, $has_children, $menu = '', $in_active_trail = FALSE, $extra_class = NULL) {
  $class = ($menu ? 'expanded' : ($has_children ? 'collapsed' : 'leaf'));
  if (!empty($extra_class)) {
    $class .= ' ' . $extra_class;
  }
  if ($in_active_trail) {
    $class .= ' active-trail';
  }
  return '<li class="' . $class . '">' . $link . $menu . "</li>\n";
}

Comments

Posted by Xano on

This function has been renamed to theme_menu_link() in Drupal 7.

Posted by Quke on

I have just installed Drupal 7.20, im fairly new to drupal and theming it, I woudl really like to know where I can get the main menu output to be

  • , the funktion dos not exist, like its describe here. Any help to file and line to where to change it would really be appriciated

    • Posted by MostUniqueUsername on

    Warning: different modules like Special menu items and similar could override menu functions like this one, resulting in ignorance towards template.php altering.

    Posted by Haidee on

    for D6. how do i theme each item element specifically "

  • " tag... i wanted to add some "css class" on the first and last item. while the rest of the elements are just simply clean "
  • " tags...

    please help...