Title: show/hide submenu Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # show/hide submenu * [froggyfrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/froggyfrog/) * (@froggyfrog) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showhide-submenu/) * Hi there, * I have created my own theme for wordpress and all works. However, I would like my subnav to only show once the parent has been selected. * I think I need some kind of jquery to do this but not too sure how it all works. * Basically I have a mainnav and for some of the mainnav options there is a subnav. Once a mainnav item is selected the a is given an id of active. * Any help would be great thank you, * Here is my code:- * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome). Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com)]_ Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * Thread Starter [froggyfrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/froggyfrog/) * (@froggyfrog) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showhide-submenu/#post-1790874) * The code:- * ``` post_parent) { $ancestors=get_post_ancestors($post->ID); $root=count($ancestors)-1; $topParent = $ancestors[$root]; } else { $topParent = $post->ID; } // This function gets the main nav items $args = array ( 'sort_column' => 'ID', 'parent' => 0, ); $mainNavItems = get_pages($args); ?>
``` Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘show/hide submenu’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Subnav](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subnav/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 1 participant * Last reply from: [froggyfrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/froggyfrog/) * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showhide-submenu/#post-1790874) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics