how to remove header links class with ul tag in magento 2?

Question

I'm on Magento 2.1.6. The header links are rendered with this structure:

<ul class="header links">
  <li>...</li>
  <li>...</li>
  ...
</ul>

My HTML structure is like this:

How can I remove ul tag?? I do not require ul tag.

Answer 1

You can change Links.php at this location :- vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/Html

Probably on line no 76 remove the UL or change it to DIV

Answer 2

I am extending the answer given by Manoj..

It is required to create a custom module, let us say Stack_Links, follow this link for the same Dev Doc

Then create di.xml file within \app\code\Stack\Links\etc directory of module as below:

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Framework/ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">     
    <preference for="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Links" type="Stack\Links\Block\Links" />
</config>

Then Copy

\Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Links.php

file to

\app\code\Stack\Links\Block\Links.php

Then modify _toHtml() method according to requirement such as below to remove UL tag.

protected function _toHtml()
{
    if (false != $this->getTemplate()) {
        return parent::_toHtml();
    }

    $html = '';
    if ($this->getLinks()) {            
        foreach ($this->getLinks() as $link) {
            $html .= $this->renderLink($link);
        }            
    }

    return $html;
}