Title: Drop down menu on touch screen
Last modified: August 31, 2016

---

# Drop down menu on touch screen

 *  [northfool71](https://wordpress.org/support/users/northfool71/)
 * (@northfool71)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-on-touch-screen/)
 * Hi
 * I have a main menu on my WordPress site ([KISBD.com](http://kisbd.com)) that 
   has sub-menus. I’ve done a little research and it looks like a common issue on
   touch screen devices is how quickly the parent link will trigger before a child
   link can be chosen.
 * Is there a way to delay the parent link triggering longer to give the visitor
   more time to choose a child link in the sub-menu?
 * Or, is there a way to make the parent link inactive and have it only display 
   the sub-menu when selected?
 * The latter would be preferable.
 * Many thanks

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  [MartinCDS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martincds/)
 * (@martincds)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-on-touch-screen/#post-7135608)
 * You could use a bit of jQuery in the footer, my JavaScript is not that good but
   something like this could work if you add it to your footer just before the closing
   body tag:
 *     ```
       <script>
       if (jQuery(window).width() < 800) {
                       jQuery(".menu-item-has-children a").removeAttr("href");
                       });
   
       </script>
       ```
   
 * As a rule though avoid adding links to parent menu items as this confuses users.
   I normally just add a # tag with the menu item name and then remove it after 
   it is part of the menu.
 *  Thread Starter [northfool71](https://wordpress.org/support/users/northfool71/)
 * (@northfool71)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-on-touch-screen/#post-7135725)
 * Thank you. The custom menu item solution is the easiest and best. Works great
   now.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Drop down menu on touch screen’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [touch screen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/touch-screen/)

 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [northfool71](https://wordpress.org/support/users/northfool71/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-on-touch-screen/#post-7135725)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics