Clicking on parent still expands menu although it loads parent page

Hi!

Plugin: jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu
Version: 3.1.2

Hope you’ll understand the problem.
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Normal situation
1. User clikcs on menu item which is a parent with some sub-items
2. It loads parent page (parent menu item page) and also expands the menu
3. User reads information on parent and then can select sub-item from menu and click it
4. Sub-menu page loads, menu stays expanded

Currently, bad usability functions like this:
1. User clicks on parent menu item
2. Menu expands and page reloads and menu expands again
3. User reads information on parent and then can select sub-item from menu and click it
4. Sub-menu page loads, menu stays expanded

Action number 2 is the problem.

The problem is that if I click on the parent that has it’s own page the user can read then there’s no point to expand the menu before loading the page because the page will load anyway and open the menu again too.

It’s particularly annoying on responsive view because of the slower reaction times on mobile phones compared to PC reaction times.

Try it out, you’ll see what I mean.

Any ideas how to make it so that when I parent menu item has a page and sub-pages then clicking on it will load the parent page and expand the menu not expand-open-expand.

Hope I was clear enough.

Urmas

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