[wp-hackers] ID attributes for admin menu items

Leonid Mamchenkov leonid at mamchenkov.net
Sat Jul 28 11:56:21 GMT 2007


Hi,

On 7/25/07, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> Leonid Mamchenkov wrote:
> > I think it would be nice to have a unique ID set on each menu item, so
> > that a style could be attached to it.  The ID can be dynamically
> > generated from the item title or something like that.
>
> I'm fine with that, but it'd need to be done in a way that translation
> doesn't mess it up.

Is sanitize_title() translation friendly?  Attached is a simple patch
for wp-admin/menu-header.php (against trunk r5820) which generates
ID's like 'adminmenu_dashboard' and 'submenu_posts'.

Any problems with this approach? It seem to work for me.

-- 
Leonid Mamchenkov


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