Main menu still not clickable if there are submenus

xiane
(@xiane)

10 years, 8 months ago

So I’m having the issue where if I have submenu dropdown options on my nav menu, I can’t click on the parent links in the menu. It will open if I right click, but that’s totally not intuitive for readers of my site.

I saw this post already: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/main-menu-not-clickable

This did not actually fix the issue. It made the parent menu clickable, with no dropdowns. What am I missing?

Thanks so much for your help.

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HappySage
(@happysage)

10 years, 8 months ago

This post suggests that it is a design decision rather than a bug and i understand why i might be this way.
It says to just repeat the parent in the child list.

rdellconsulting
(@rdellconsulting)

10 years, 8 months ago

Try this:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/main-menu-not-clickable

I’m still diagnosing why it doesn’t do it for me.

rdellconsulting
(@rdellconsulting)

10 years, 8 months ago

Sorry, I missed that you’d tried it already! If I have a breakthrough I’ll let you know.

Thread Starter xiane
(@xiane)

10 years, 8 months ago

It’s not very intuitive of a design decision, is it? That’s the workaround I came up with on my own [adding the parent in the submenu too], but I was sure it had to be an issue, because not having the parent clickable makes no sense and is clunky navigation.

Thanks for your answer.

HappySage
(@happysage)

10 years, 8 months ago

I cant say why the author of this theme chose to do it this way but if you are using a touch screen device then it does make sense to have it this way.It is counter intuitive to touch the parent menu entry to open the menu and then choose a page . I have seen that people just expect it to close the menu again so it doesn’t get selected.

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

10 years, 8 months ago

Can you create your own menu instead http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen ?

KoriMiller
(@korimiller)

10 years, 8 months ago

THANK YOU! For those of us who don’t know CSS, this is the answer we need! And, it makes perfect sense when you think about touch screens. That’s clever.