Remove LI Elements From Output of wp_nav_menu

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You can remove or change the <ul> container that you get by default with wp_nav_menu (codex) through parameters, but you can’t remove the <li> elements that wrap each menu item. This is how you can actually remove them:

$menuParameters = array(
  'container'       => false,
  'echo'            => false,
  'items_wrap'      => '%3$s',
  'depth'           => 0,
);

echo strip_tags(wp_nav_menu( $menuParameters ), '<a>' );