Title: customizing html in PHP menu constructor
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# customizing html in PHP menu constructor

 *  [stabilimenta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stabilimenta/)
 * (@stabilimenta)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-html-in-php-menu-constructor/)
 * I am creating a custom theme for a client and am having trouble figuring out 
   how to wrap a `<div>` around the top level link, and wrap the linked text in 
   a span, but **only for the parent pages** in my navigation menu, like this
 *     ```
       <li id=&quot;community&quot;>
       	<div class=&quot;parent&quot;>
       		<a href=&quot;#&quot;><span>Top Level Page 1</span></a>
       	</div>
   
       	<ul>
       		<li><a href=&quot;#&quot;&quot;>Sub Page 1</a></li>
       	</ul>
       </li>
       ```
   
 * I’m a designer, and know very little about PHP constuctors.
 * I am working in the classes.php, but can’t figure out how to get it to treat 
   the parents differently from the children. Can anyone offer me some guidance.
   
   Thank you,

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