How to Remove the <ul> container with the wp_nav_menu function

` will stay. It might be good to use a filter method like add_filter( ‘wp_nav_menu’, ‘remove_ul’ ) to accomplish the filter I have below, but that the filter was not being applied at the time of writing, so I (used to) recommend changing the `echo` option to `false`, and returning the value of the `wp_nav_menu` function to a variable, and then running a regular expression on it to remove the encompassing `

` and `

`.

This code worked for me, running WordPress 3.0.4:

$options = array(
‘echo’ => false
,’container’ => false
);

$menu = wp_nav_menu($options);
echo preg_replace( array( ‘#^

]*>#’, ‘#

$#’ ), ”, $menu );

###Use Site Pages as a Default Fallback

If you want it to use the site’s pages as a default (if no menu is specified and the function is called), you can add an additional function and change the options array as shown:

function default_page_menu() {
wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’);
}

$options = array(
‘echo’ => false
,’container’ => false
,’fallback_cb’=> ‘default_page_menu’
);

$menu = wp_nav_menu($options);
echo preg_replace( array( ‘#^

]*>#’, ‘#

$#’ ), ”, $menu );

###Update: A Better Way to Remove the `

` element

I think as of WordPress 3.1 they added a new parameter to make it easier to get rid of the `

` that wraps the menu. It is called `items_wrap`

When you call `wp_nav_menu` you will want to specify that option.

By default it is set as:

‘items_wrap’ => ‘

%3$s

‘

To get the `ul` to go away change it to:

‘items_wrap’=>’%3$s’

Also, someone had a question about changing the `