wp-includes/class-walker-page.php:105Outputs the beginning of the current element in the tree.
$outputstring$data_objectWP_Post$depthintoptional0$argsarrayoptionalarray()$current_object_idintoptional03 hooks fire while Walker_Page::start_el() runs, in this order:
Filters the list of CSS classes to include with each page item in the list.
Filters the HTML attributes applied to a page menu item's anchor element.
public function start_el( &$output, $data_object, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $current_object_id = 0 ) { // Restores the more descriptive, specific name for use within this method. $page = $data_object; $current_page_id = $current_object_id; if ( isset( $args['item_spacing'] ) && 'preserve' === $args['item_spacing'] ) { $t = "\t"; $n = "\n"; } else { $t = ''; $n = ''; } if ( $depth ) { $indent = str_repeat( $t, $depth ); } else { $indent = ''; } $css_class = array( 'page_item', 'page-item-' . $page->ID ); if ( isset( $args['pages_with_children'][ $page->ID ] ) ) { $css_class[] = 'page_item_has_children'; } if ( ! empty( $current_page_id ) ) { $_current_page = get_post( $current_page_id ); if ( $_current_page && in_array( $page->ID, $_current_page->ancestors, true ) ) { $css_class[] = 'current_page_ancestor'; } if ( $page->ID === (int) $current_page_id ) { $css_class[] = 'current_page_item'; } elseif ( $_current_page && $page->ID === $_current_page->post_parent ) { $css_class[] = 'current_page_parent'; } } elseif ( (int) get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) === $page->ID ) { $css_class[] = 'current_page_parent'; } /** * Filters the list of CSS classes to include with each page item in the list. * * @since 2.8.0 * * @see wp_list_pages() * * @param string[] $css_class An array of CSS classes to be applied to each list item. * @param WP_Post $page Page data object. * @param int $depth Depth of page, used for padding. * @param array $args An array of arguments. * @param int $current_page_id ID of the current page. */ $css_classes = implode( ' ', apply_filters( 'page_css_class', $css_class, $page, $depth, $args, $current_page_id ) ); $css_classes = $css_classes ? ' class="' . esc_attr( $css_classes ) . '"' : ''; if ( '' === $page->post_title ) { /* translators: %d: ID of a post. */ $page->post_title = sprintf( __( '#%d (no title)' ), $page->ID ); } $args['link_before'] = empty( $args['link_before'] ) ? '' : $args['link_before']; $args['link_after'] = empty( $args['link_after'] ) ? '' : $args['link_after']; $atts = array(); $atts['href'] = get_permalink( $page->ID ); $atts['aria-current'] = ( $page->ID === (int) $current_page_id ) ? 'page' : ''; /** * Filters the HTML attributes applied to a page menu item's anchor element. * * @since 4.8.0 * * @param array $atts { * The HTML attributes applied to the menu item's `<a>` element, empty strings are ignored. * * @type string $href The href attribute. * @type string $aria-current The aria-current attribute. * }Introduced in 2.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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