Adding a span tag to main menu and nice menu sub items in drupal 7

Component ID

2376823

Component name

Adding a span tag to main menu and nice menu sub items in drupal 7

Component type

theme

Maintenance status

Actively maintained

Development status

Under active development

Component security advisory coverage

not-covered

Component created

Component changed

Component body

function THEME_menu_link(array $variables) {
  $element = $variables['element'];
  $sub_menu = '';
$switch = $element['#original_link']['has_children'];
  if ($element['#below']) {
    $sub_menu = drupal_render($element['#below']);
  }
  $element['#localized_options']['html'] = TRUE;
 #This adds the span only to the parent Title: If you need the span on all text Titles Just remove the if else statement and leave  $linktext = '<span class="your_class">' . $element['#title'] . '</span>'; : 
 if($switch == 1) {
  $linktext = $element['#title'] . '<span class="your_class"> </span>';
 } else {
	 $linktext = $element['#title'];
 }
  $output = l($linktext, $element['#href'], $element['#localized_options']);
  return '<li' . drupal_attributes($element['#attributes']) . '>' . $output . $sub_menu . "</li>
";
}

Component url

https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/gajendrasharma/2376823