Add custom class to a particular menu

Question

I need to know how to add extra class to a perticular menu.For example i have custom menu "menu-header-let",This menu is rendering like below,

<ul class="menu"><li class="leaf first"><a title="Redirecting to Help Page" href="/vsv/content1">Help</a></li>
<li class="leaf"><a title="" href="/vsv/content1">Home</a></li>
<li class="leaf last"><a title="" href="/vsv/content1">home2</a></li>
</ul>

Now i want add extra class to the ul like below

   <ul class="header-top-menu">

I used phptemplate_menu_tree(), but i need different class for each custom menu.If is override menu theme and adding same class for all custom menu.

I have no idea how to add different class when different custom menu renders in drupal.

please help me.

Answer 1

Well, the code in tutorial that beth mentioned has bugs and does not work. The best solution I've found up to now is this:

<?php
function YOUR_THEME_menu_tree($tree) {
  if (preg_match('/A unique string in your menu/', $tree)) {
      return '<ul class="header-top-menu">' . $tree . '</ul>';
  } else {
    return '<ul class="menu">'. $tree .'</ul>';
  } 
}
?>

You can use any unique path or link title as string to identify the menu. This solution was inspired by a comment in the cited tutorial.

Answer 2

There's a tutorial just for you: http://programmingbulls.com/complete-drupal-6-menu-theming

Answer 3

I should agree that theming of menu items in Drupal sucks.

There is a module Menu Attributes which does just that. You can also add Id,Name, Target, Rel,Class,Style,Accesskey attributes to the particular menus.