Menus freezing wordpress

The first thing to do to troubleshoot an issue in the dashboard like that is to temporarily deactivate all your plugins. If the problem goes away, reactivate them one-by-one to find the culprit.

If deactivating all your plugins doesn’t work, try a default theme temporarily like Twenty Fourteen or Twenty Thirteen. You may first want to make a note of theme-specific settings like widgets or theme options, as you may need to reset them later. If a default theme works fine, you should contact the Avada theme developer to report the issue.

https://themeforest.net/item/avada-responsive-multipurpose-theme/2833226

Thank you so much! temporarily deactivating plugins did not work and the Twenty Fourteen theme did not work. any other suggestions

If the menu freezing problem still happened with all plugins disabled and a default theme, it could mean the culprit lies in a few other areas:

1. Browser – try this in a different browser than your usual one. Does it work?

2. Browser extensions/add-ons – try turning off all browser add-ons and extensions to see if one is conflicting. In Firefox, you can try Safe Mode:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-remove-add-ons

In Chrome, you can follow these instructions:
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=187443

Scroll down to the section called “Temporarily disable extensions.”

3. Core WordPress files – something may be corrupt in your core WordPress installation. To rule that out, you can try manually reinstalling the WordPress core files. You need to be very careful when you do that, so you don’t overwrite any important files, like your wp-config.php and .htaccess files, and your wp-content folder, among others.

The Codex has a guide to manually installing WordPress:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update

I strongly suggest backing up your entire site – both files and database – before doing a manual reinstall.