Thanks for that link, it definitely gives me a much cleaner (and probably faster) way to strip my class and id from the sub-menu.

Through this problem, I have already learned more than ever wanted to about how Drupal's menu system works, and I just read its been completely rewritten for 6, cest la vie.

Unfortunately  the class and id are still not being applied to the parent ul that contains my nested lists. 

In 4.7 the same classes and ids were applied to every ul in the menu structure including the parent.

You mentioned that the menu system drops in and out of the theme system.  Is it possible that as of version 5 template.php isn't called until after the parent list is themed by the core theme_menu_tree function?  Doing a search of all of the core drupal files I couldn't find anywhere else the class "menu" was being applied except menu_tree.  I haven't tried to modify menu.module yet, but I'll try today to see if that fixes my problem.

On 5/4/07, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com > wrote:
Have a look here: http://drupal.org/node/138656

I was tackling a different issue there, but the structure for what you want is
probably the same.  Be sure to see the descriptive text to explain what's
going on.  Menu theming is a bit weird in that it jumps in and out of the
theme system proper, but you can pull it all into the theme system that way.

On Thursday 03 May 2007, Mark Ferree wrote:
> Drupal by default uses the theme_menu_tree function to apply the class
> "menu" to all menus throughout the site (except for primary and secondary
> menus which use a different function).  When I did an override of the menu
> in 4.7 the parent menu as well as the sub menus were changed, but as of
> version 5 the only class that is changed is the class on the sub-menus.
>
> I have been through the theme handbook several times, as well as searching
> the forums and the archives of this list for anyone having similar issues.
> I have a feeling that changing the class isn't something that is done very
> often, due to the fact that you can easily modify your css to hook into the
> correct "menu" class, unfortunately the javascript menu I am using (udm)
> isn't as flexible.
>
> On 5/3/07, Jason Flatt < drupal@oadaeh.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday May 3 2007 7:59 am, Mark Ferree wrote:
> > > Two days later, and I still am only able to override the class and ids
> >
> > of
> >
> > > the nested sub menus on my site, and not the top level.
> >
> > You might try using Firebug's inspect feature in Firefox to determine if
> > you
> > are overriding the correct classes and/or ids.
> >
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