Add Attribute to Top Level Menus

  • CmdrKeene

    (@shawnkeenegmailcom)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there! I’m trying to make my drop-down navigation menus more accessible (okay, accessible at all) from a touch device like an iPad or Surface tablet.

    Since these are based on CSS a:hover for displaying the submenu, I’ve been researching easy fixes. One I’d like to implement is adding the following attribute to the li

    aria-haspopup=”true”

    This causes modern browsers to allow for hover when the user touches the element on a tablet computer.

    However, I have no idea how to add this.

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  • Yea this is one that you will have to extend a class for sadly because the default wp implementation doesn’t allow you to add attributes to an li element via a filter, only css classes AFAIK.

    In your theme’s function.php create something similar

    class my_custom_li_nav_menu extends Walker_Nav_Menu {

	function start_el( &$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $id = 0 ) {
		$indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';

		$class_names = $value = '';

		$classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;
		$classes[] = 'menu-item-' . $item->ID;

		$class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item, $args ) );
		$class_names = $class_names ? ' class="' . esc_attr( $class_names ) . '"' : '';

		$id = apply_filters( 'nav_menu_item_id', 'menu-item-'. $item->ID, $item, $args );
		$id = $id ? ' id="' . esc_attr( $id ) . '"' : '';

		// We've got a sub-menu, you can remove this condition and
		// have the attribute display for all the li elements, but just in case you only wanted sub menus
		if ( $depth > 0) {
			// This is where the magic happens lol
			$output .= $indent . '<li' . $id . $value . $class_names .' aria-haspopup="true">'; 

		} else {

			$output .= $indent . '<li' . $id . $value . $class_names .'>';
		}
		$attributes  = ! empty( $item->attr_title ) ? ' title="'  . esc_attr( $item->attr_title ) .'"' : '';
		$attributes .= ! empty( $item->target )     ? ' target="' . esc_attr( $item->target     ) .'"' : '';
		$attributes .= ! empty( $item->xfn )        ? ' rel="'    . esc_attr( $item->xfn        ) .'"' : '';
		$attributes .= ! empty( $item->url )        ? ' href="'   . esc_attr( $item->url        ) .'"' : '';

		$item_output = $args->before;
		$item_output .= '<a'. $attributes .'>';
		$item_output .= $args->link_before . apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID ) . $args->link_after;
		$item_output .= '</a>';
		$item_output .= $args->after;

		$output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
	}
}

    Then in your child theme header.php, (for instance if it were based on TwentyTwelve) you would want to go to the header file and add the walker argument like so

    <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu', 'walker' => new my_custom_li_nav_menu() ) ); //<-- on the end there ?>
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