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I was trying to do/learn something and i am at topmenu.phtml file , i have seen $block->getchildhtml() there and when i go to block which is namespace Magento\Theme\Block\Html; with the name topmenu.php , i am not seeing any getchildhtml function there . I did research on what getchildhtml function is i have realized it is comming from the layout but when i go to layout which is default.xml file in the module-theme folder there is 

<block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="store.menu" group="navigation-sections" template="Magento_Theme::html/container.phtml">
                <arguments>
                    <argument name="title" translate="true" xsi:type="string">Menu</argument>
                </arguments>
                <block class="Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Topmenu" name="catalog.topnav" template="Magento_Theme::html/topmenu.phtml" ttl="3600" before="-"/>
</block>

there is no child of this block so from where this getchildhtml will see and print result ?

Flutterer
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$block->getChildHtml()
will return child block html. So in your case create child block using xml, this code snippet will automatically return html of that child block. Ex. 

<block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="store.menu" group="navigation-sections" template="Magento_Theme::html/container.phtml">
    <arguments>
        <argument name="title" translate="true" xsi:type="string">Menu</argument>
    </arguments>
    <block class="Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Topmenu" name="catalog.topnav" template="Magento_Theme::html/topmenu.phtml" ttl="3600" before="-">
        <block name="sample.testblock" template="Vendor_Module::sample.phtml"/>
    </block>
</block>

<block name="sample.testblock" template="Vendor_Module::sample.phtml"/> block will render automatically.

Sohel Rana
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