I’m working on a custom theme using wp_nav_menu(). What I want to do is add a caret to menu items that have sub-menus. For example, If my menu looks like this:
- Menu Item 1
- Menu Item 2
- Menu Item 2a
- Menu Item 2b
- Menu Item 3
I want to be able to format it like this:
- List item
- Menu Item 1
- Menu Item 2 >
- Menu Item 2a
- Menu Item 2b
- Menu Item 3
Without knowing the structure of the menu. This seems like a pretty common formatting problem, so I was wondering if there is any built-in functionality to provide for this.
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I do this using jQuery (since it doesn’t necessarily need to be in the TEXT (for screen readers, etc.) – just another option…:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('ul#nav li').has('ul').addClass('parentul');
});
Then for that “parentul” class I put in a background image of an arrow and position it to the right > …