Drop down menus vs. portfolio projects

  • Hello, I am using a child theme in Arcade basic. https://lehndorff.com/graphics/ My main menu at the top is misbehaving.

    The menu titles that go to an individual page work fine. But the portfolio pages linked under certain “project types” are not letting the visitor click on the actual client or portfolio page unless they are very very fast and lucky. An example would be “Health Care” > “Baystate Health System” but normally it ends up on a project type “page” with links. But it used to work fine. Was it an upgrade from the theme, possibly?
    What am I doing wrong? Or did something change? I’m really pretty new to this. Is there a way to let the drop down just stay down while you select where you want to go.
    Thanks for your help.

    Peter

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  • Hello, I’m not farmiliar with this theme or its functionality but I can see what the problem is. The <a> tag link is wrapping both the top level menu item as well as the dropdown arrow, so when people click the dropdown arrow it’s actually activating the link on the top level menu item.

    To fix this, I would first check if the theme has any options to allow top level menu items to link. Again, I don’t know anything about this theme so I’m just listing off the possibilities. Disabling the top level link will give you the dropdown functionality as it should be, without whisking the user away before they’ve had a chance to read the list. However this depends on if you still need that top level link, which I’m assuming you do.

    If you’re comfortable with editing the code directly and don’t mind that you wont be able to update the theme without a little work then I would move the <a> link tag around just the top level link and not the arrow. The CSS creating the styles is targeting that <a> tag so you will need to update this to whatever element you change it to, which would more than likely be a <div>. This will allow you to keep the top level link, as well as the dropdown click area separate.

    Thinking about it, it was probably due to an update if it was working before, the theme author might have forgotten this small detail. It might be worth raising this with them and their support group in case it’s affecting others as well.

    Thread Starter lehndorffdesign

    (@lehndorffdesign)

    Thanks for your help. You are correct in that it was ignoring the top level item before. I’m really new to css so I do a lot by trial and error. It could be that I changed something and didn’t revert it. I don’t see anything specific on the menu page which may be the standard WP menus. Again I’m not sure. There is a space in all of the menu items: “CSS classes (optional)” I’m going to hunt around for the code that you mention because I would like to learn by figuring it out if I can. Right now it is serviceable. The visitor can, at least, go to those portfolio pages. I thought it was something peculiar to the portfolio function but I tried last night to replace the portfolio projects with actual pages. But the same thing happens. So the headline of my support question may be misleading ?? I’ll try a few things and report back. Again thanks.
    Peter

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