Title: Collapse Submenus by Default
Last modified: June 10, 2020

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# Collapse Submenus by Default

 *  Resolved [Lanie Carmelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/living4god1991/)
 * (@living4god1991)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapse-submenus-by-default/)
 * Hi. I hope this is the right place to post this. I’m not sure if it’s a WordPress
   issue or a theme issue. In case it helps, I’m using Weaver Xtreme for my theme.
   I want to use submenus in my site, but I wasn’t sure how to make the top level
   of the menu not go anywhere, so I followed directions I found on a couple different
   websites. I created a custom link menu item for the name of the menu, put ‘#’
   in the field for the link, and then moved that to the top of the menu and moved
   other items under it. This works well in most ways, although I’m open to other
   ways of creating menus if they would work or look better, but the menus seem 
   to stay expanded by default. I can collapse them by clicking the top level link
   in the menu, but for accessibility reasons and because I think it would look 
   better, I’d like to have the menus collapsed by default. Is there a way I can
   change them to make them collapsed by default? I don’t know CSS, but I’m willing
   to edit CSS somewhere if needed. Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcollapse-submenus-by-default%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapse-submenus-by-default/#post-13016408)
 * Have you resolved this since the time you’ve posted this topic? The sub-menu 
   is only open on hover, it doesn’t stay open. If this is resolved, when you have
   a spare moment please mark this topic as resolved. Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [Lanie Carmelo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/living4god1991/)
 * (@living4god1991)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapse-submenus-by-default/#post-13040438)
 * I’ll take another look at this. It may be an accessibility issue. I’m blind and
   use a screen reader and the menus don’t seem to be collapsed for me when I move
   over them with my screen reader’s review modes. I’ll mark this as resolved and
   repost in the accessibility forum if there’s still an issue.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapse-submenus-by-default/#post-13043177)
 * Ah, OK. Yeah, it works as expected visually. It’s quite likely what happens on
   a screen reader is different. I don’t know enough of screen readers to comment
   further. WP core only provides an unordered list of links as a menu. Menu appearance
   and behavior is the responsibility of your theme. You may need to go back to 
   the theme’s developer for a solution. Feel free to repost in accessibility if
   you think it’ll help. Thanks for coming back and clarifying.

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 * [submenus](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/submenus/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapse-submenus-by-default/#post-13043177)
 * Status: resolved

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