Title: Sub menu item width
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Sub menu item width

 *  Resolved [jqz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jqz/)
 * (@jqz)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-menu-item-width-1/)
 * In Twenty Fourteen theme, sub menu items have fixed width. This means longer 
   text overflows catastrophically, and shorter text has unnecessary space.
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13903929/how-to-set-css-width-equal-to-length-of-longest-text](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13903929/how-to-set-css-width-equal-to-length-of-longest-text)
   indicates a solution, however I have so far been unable to adapt (copy/modify)
   the theme to fix the issue.
 * I am stuck, as the width of the main menu items is constraining that of the sub-
   menu and I’ve no idea why. It doesn’t in the link above, so the issue is clearly
   solvable…
 * Hopefully someone has already had this issue. Why is the sub-menu width restricted
   that of the parent item in “2014” whilst it isn’t in the example above? What 
   am I missing?

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 *  Thread Starter [jqz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jqz/)
 * (@jqz)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-menu-item-width-1/#post-5509279)
 * Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [jqz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jqz/)
 * (@jqz)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-menu-item-width-1/#post-5509387)
 * After many hours drilling down, I figured it was probably this that was needed:
 * `
    .primary-navigation .menu-item-has-children ul li a, .primary-navigation .
   page_item_has_children ul li a { display: block; }
 * There are a few other changes needed – I added ‘width: 100%’ to ‘.primary-navigation
   li li’ and removed the predefined widths in two places. If anyone wants more 
   detail please ask.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-menu-item-width-1/#post-5509387)
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