page awareness with wp_list_categories?

I would use get_categories with the same basic parameters – that will give an array of the categories that you can then build your own list using ul and li – and allow you to change the style on the choice you want.

Thanks for your answer myinstinct, with this menu, I need to list sub categories under a specific category, that explains the “child_of=’.$cat4” which has to be dynamic.
Can I do this with get_categories?

All right, seams to be a possible solution, I do not know the function very well, can you give me an example or a link that explains how to rebuild a menu after using this function?

I would start here

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_categories

Thanks myinstinct, I tried to manipulate a bit the drop-down menu as shown on the page you gave me but I am not sure it will help me. Still, my drop-down box appears, with the right subcategory names for the different options.

I guess at least the start may be:

$categories=  get_categories('orderby=name&use_desc_for_title=1&depth=1&hierarchical=1&style=0&hide_empty=0&child_of='.$cat4);
  foreach ($categories as $cat_z) {...

I now have to create a simple horizontal menu using ul an li, can you help me a bit more?

I haven’t tested this, but it should look something like

echo '<ul>';
foreach ($categories as $cat) {
  	$option = '<li>' . $cat->category_nicename . '</li>';
	echo $option;
}
echo '</ul>';

You may want to make the $cat->category_nicename a link as well, so

$option = '<li><a href="page to link to here">' . $cat->category_nicename . '</a></li>
';

cool!
Thanks a lot myinstinct.

works fine!
Here we go:

$categories=  get_categories('orderby=name&use_desc_for_title=1&depth=1&hierarchical=1&style=0&hide_empty=0&child_of='.$cat4);
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($categories as $catz) {
    $option = '<li><a href="./?cat=' . $catz->cat_ID . '">' . $catz->cat_name . '</a></li>';
	echo $option;
}
echo '</ul>';

Here is my 95% final code:

<div id="navmenu2">

<?php
//wp_list_categories('orderby=name&use_desc_for_title=1&depth=1&hierarchical=1&style=0&hide_empty=0&child_of='.$cat4);
$categories=  get_categories('orderby=name&use_desc_for_title=1&depth=1&hierarchical=1&style=0&hide_empty=0&child_of='.$cat4);

echo '<ul>';
foreach ($categories as $catz) {
    $option = '<li><a href="./?cat=' . $catz->cat_ID . '">' . $catz->cat_name . '</a></li>';
    $option2 = '<li id="tralala"><a href="./?cat=' . $catz->cat_ID . '">' . $catz->cat_name . '</a></li>';
	$cat_numb= $catz->cat_ID;
//echo $cat_numb;

	if ( $cat_numb==$catid)
				{
				echo $option2;
				}
				 else
				{
				echo $option;
				} 

}
echo '</ul>';?>

</div>

My only remaining problem is that separation between each line is now more important than when I did not use

and
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ul and li…

I managed to finish this with my css, the main code is up there.
Again, thank you myinstinct, I close the post.