Title: Parent Menu Items
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Parent Menu Items

 *  Resolved [Laurena Rehbein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrehbein/)
 * (@lrehbein)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-menu-items/)
 * Hello there,
 * I love your plugin, and am quite pleased with the functionality! However, I do
   have something I am trying to sort out.
 * I have installed the plugin on a site that uses top-level menu items that don’t
   lead to an actual page, but have child menu items. Your menu is working well 
   in that a black arrow appears that toggles open the sub-menu.
 * However, I have reports of users trying to click the parent item itself, rather
   than the arrow, and the parent link doesn’t go anywhere. Is there any way to 
   set it up that either:
 * 1. The parent item doesn’t get the hover background colour when touched, or
    
   2. A click on the parent item toggles the drop-down
 * Any help would be much appreciated!
 * Laurena
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-menu/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-menu/)

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 *  [peterfeatherstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterfeatherstone/)
 * (@peterfeatherstone)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-menu-items/#post-4867784)
 * Hi Laurena,
 * First of all thanks for using the plug-in, it is much appreciated.
 * Unfortunately this is not currently an option in the plug-in, however I can add
   future functionality that will enable the plug-in to ignore clicks on parent 
   links if you would like?
 * Many thanks
 * Peter
 *  Thread Starter [Laurena Rehbein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrehbein/)
 * (@lrehbein)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-menu-items/#post-4867787)
 * Hi Peter,
 * That would be great – though I wonder if there would be any way to attach the
   toggle action to the parent menu item somehow, rather than just the icon?
 * Thank you for your reply, looking forward to future releases :-).
 * Laurena
 *  [peterfeatherstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterfeatherstone/)
 * (@peterfeatherstone)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-menu-items/#post-4867863)
 * Hi Laurena,
 * This functionality has all now been added in the 2.1 release due to be released
   this evening.
 * Many thanks
 * Peter

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-menu-items/#post-4867863)
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