Title: Custom theme dropdown menu not working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom theme dropdown menu not working

 *  Resolved [Lolliedoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lolliedoll/)
 * (@lolliedoll)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-dropdown-menu-not-working/)
 * Hi everyone!
 * I’ve built a custom theme for [my blog](http://www.lolliedoll.com) and I can’t
   get my dropdown menu working. I followed a tutorial using javascript, but I don’t
   know javascript very well. I think there is something wrong with this code, but
   I don’t know how to fix it:
 *     ```
       <script type="text/javascript">
       (function() {
           $("#navigation ul.menu ul").css({ display: 'none' });
           $("#navigation ul.menu li").hover(function() {
               $(this).find('ul.sub-menu')
                   .stop(true, true).delay(10).animate({ "height": "show", "opacity": "show" }, 200 );
           }, function(){
               $(this).find('ul.sub-menu')
                   .stop(true, true).delay(10).animate({ "height": "hide", "opacity": "hide" }, 200 );
           });
       });
       </script>
       ```
   
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated! I want to be able to make my menus in 
   the wordpress menus function and have the second level navigation actually work!
 * xxMillie

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-dropdown-menu-not-working/#post-3657406)
 * Which tutorial are you following?
    Also see [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript)
 *  Thread Starter [Lolliedoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lolliedoll/)
 * (@lolliedoll)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-dropdown-menu-not-working/#post-3657407)
 * I copied/pasted it all in ages ago and was a loser and didn’t bookmark where 
   I got it from, so I don’t remember. The javascript I posted above is in the header.
   php file before </head> The script itself didn’t come in a file so linking it
   in isn’t possible and at this stage javascript is still completely over my head…
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-dropdown-menu-not-working/#post-3657408)
 * A reason why it’s not working is that it’s set to run ASAP, before any page elements
   are loaded.
 * Other reasons could be that it’s not using [noconflict wrappers](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script#jQuery_noConflict_Wrappers)
   or being [ enqueued](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script).
 *  Thread Starter [Lolliedoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lolliedoll/)
 * (@lolliedoll)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-dropdown-menu-not-working/#post-3657412)
 * Thank you so much! It wasn’t using noconflict wrappers!! Now to code it to display
   better! I’ve been stuck on this for ages, thank you so much for your help!

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [Lolliedoll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lolliedoll/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-dropdown-menu-not-working/#post-3657412)
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