theming

Overriding menu item themes

In an earlier article, I tried to argue, somewhat inconvincingly, that theming menu items is less than ideal. I think my example was not well chosen. Fortunately, real life furnished me with a perfect example, during the course of my work.

A client required to associate specific icons with menu items, by specifying a custom class for specific menu items. A legitimate request that has been around for years on desktop menu systems. How to implement this on Drupal? Not so simple using the current menu theming setup.

Overriding a theme function in a module

UPDATE: The comment by jtsnow resolves the general problem of overriding theme functions in a module using hook_theme_registry_alter(). Woohoo! But the specific problem described below to override the rendering of menu items remains.

I am trying to instruct the menu system to display each item's description underneath the item text, in a smaller font. I located the theme_menu_item() function in menu.inc that currently performs this task.

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