Title: Menu Customisation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Menu Customisation

 *  [jbradley87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbradley87/)
 * (@jbradley87)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-customisation/)
 * Hi guys,
 * I’ve just had a mate put together a theme for me which I’ve been fiddling with(
   as a complete CSS novice), having a few issues with the menus though.
 * Firstly, the biggest issue, in the control panel if I have more than 20 items
   total in the list and try and save it I get a nav-menus.php access forbidden.
 * Secondly, from what I can make out, the rollover height for child menus is the
   same as for the top level menu, but as the text in the child menus is shorter,
   rolling over them creates a spacing issue.
 * Finally, I’d ideally like the spacing of the dropdown menus to be the same as
   the width of the menu it’s dropping down from (unless an item on the child menu
   is wider, in which case I’d like it to expand to the right to accommodate the
   item on one line). All I’ve been able to find so far is a set column width.
 * The site in question is [http://www.boshmagazine.co.uk/Bristol](http://www.boshmagazine.co.uk/Bristol)
 * And the menu CSS:
 * _[CSS moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome).]_

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-customisation/#post-1568445)
 * > if I have more than 20 items total in the list and try and save it I get a 
   > nav-menus.php access forbidden.
 * This is almost certainly a server issue. See [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134)
 *  Thread Starter [jbradley87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbradley87/)
 * (@jbradley87)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-customisation/#post-1568448)
 * Yeah I’d just found that article recently. I’ve pulled up the error logs from
   my server and traced it to this:
 * `ModSecurity: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Operator GT matched 255 
   at ARGS. [file "/etc/modsecurity/modsecurity_crs_23_request_limits.conf"] [line"
   28"] [id "960335"] [msg "Too many arguments in request"] [severity "WARNING"][
   hostname "www.boshmagazine.co.uk"] [uri "/Bristol/wp-admin/nav-menus.php"] [unique_id"
   T@b8F9mokG8AAFfuI-AAAAAO"]`
 * Though when I ftp in there’s no /etc folder? I’ve got anon_ftp, bin, cgi-bin,
   conf, error_docs, httpdocs, httpsdocs, pd, private, statistics, subdomains & 
   web_users. What am I missing??
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-customisation/#post-1568450)
 * Oh – now that’s slightly different (although still a server issue). You might
   want to contact your hosts and send them a copy of that error log entry. Looks
   like their mod_security settings are causing the problem.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-customisation/#post-1568450)
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