{"id":20108,"date":"2012-06-26T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=20108"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:53:32","slug":"joomla-how-to-use-special-characters-in-menu-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/joomla-how-to-use-special-characters-in-menu-titles.html","title":{"rendered":"Joomla. How to use special characters in menu titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following tutorial will show you how to add special characters to the Joomla menu titles.<\/p>\r\n

Sometimes when you add a special character to the menu title in Joomla, it is reflected like it’s predefined code on your website<\/p>\r\n

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In order to resolve the issue you need to open the following file on your server:<\/p>\r\n

modules\/mod_menu\/helper.php<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

And find the line:<\/p>\r\n

$item->title = htmlspecialchars($item->title);<\/pre>\r\n
You need to add the following code before this line:<\/p>\r\n
 $item->title = str_replace(\r\narray('&lt;','&gt;','&amp;'),\r\narray('<','>','&'), $item->title);<\/pre>\r\n
Where the first array consists the list of the predefined character codes, the second array reflects the symbols of the predefined code.<\/p>\r\n
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Please, note that such symbols as ‘, " at the second array should start from backslash \\ e.g.<\/p>\r\n
array('<','>','&','\\'','\\"'), $item->title);<\/pre>\r\n
You may find more special symbols and their predefined codes on the following page: http:\/\/www.degraeve.com\/reference\/specialcharacters.php<\/a><\/p>\r\n
Enjoy your updated website:<\/p>\r\n
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Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n
Joomla. How to use special characters in menu titles<\/a><\/p>\r\n
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The following tutorial will show you how to add special characters to the Joomla menu titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[724],"tags":[495,483,571,496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82465,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20108\/revisions\/82465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}