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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Building Out WordPress Navigation Coding A Basic Navigation in WordPress

Pavle Lucic
Pavle Lucic
10,801 Points
Posted by Pavle Lucic
Pavle Lucic
10,801 Points

wp_nav_menu container set to False not working

Have problem with wp_nav_menu function.

<?php
    $defaults = array (
        'container' => false,
        'theme_location' => 'Primary_menu',
        'menu_class' => 'menu',
    );
        wp_nav_menu ( $defaults );
?>

Container => false is NOT removing div. It stills output container around <ul>. I cannot figure what is the problem?

4 Answers

Pavle Lucic
Pavle Lucic
10,801 Points
Pavle Lucic
Pavle Lucic
10,801 Points

Maybe I have fix problem, but not sure is it proper way to do that.

I added in array 

'menu' => 'Menu name here'

so it worked out.

Anthony Lucio
Anthony Lucio
20,431 Points
Anthony Lucio
Anthony Lucio
20,431 Points

Under header.php I entered the following:

<?php 

  $defaults = array(
    'container' => '',
    'menu' => 'primary-menu',
    'menu_class' => 'no-bullet'
  );

  wp_nav_menu( $defaults );


?>
Scott Carver
Scott Carver
1,165 Points
Scott Carver
Scott Carver
1,165 Points

<?php

This is working for me currently:

$menu = array( 
 'theme_location' => 'primary-desktop',
  'container' => '',
  'items_wrap' => '%3$s' 
  );

wp_nav_menu( $menu );

Seems like the container=>false technique doesn't work anymore (using WP 4.5). In the docs there is an example that shows the a similar use of items_wrap minus the "container" set to a blank string that also doesn't work currently https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_nav_menu/#comment-204 Given that those two techniques seemed to work previously, it's hard to say if this will work foreverever either.

?>

Sergio Alen
Sergio Alen
26,726 Points
Sergio Alen
Sergio Alen
26,726 Points

I dont think 'container' is a boolean i might be wrong, have you try leaving it blank? 'container' => ' ',

Pavle Lucic
Pavle Lucic
10,801 Points
Pavle Lucic
Pavle Lucic
10,801 Points

Try with blank also, not working

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points
Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

$container (string) (optional) Whether to wrap the ul, and what to wrap it with. Allowed tags are div and nav. Use false for no container e.g. 'container' => false Default: div

That is from the Codex. Using false should work. What is the HTML markup, are you sure the wrapper around it isn't hardcoded there already?