I have a Bootstrap navbar on my site with a collapsed menu that toggles on/off. I would like it so that when a user clicks one of the links in the menu (which is a dropdown, by the way), that active link should jump to the top of the menu. This way they can see a more expanded list of the dropdown items.
Here's a regular Bootstrap navbar. I want that when I click on "Dropdown", bring that active link to the top under "project name".
If I understand what you want to do correctly, from a user interface point of view I would strongly recommend against doing this. This is highly unexpected behaviour for the user who is likely to get confused as to why the thing they just tapped has moved. It could also cause mistakes from people opening the menu, then (since their finger is probably still close to the screen) accidentally clicking one of the menu items and being moved to a new page.
If you are worried about users not being able to see all the items maybe you should consider a different menu interface for your mobile devices such as an off-canvas menu (click the little 'toggle nav' button rather than the hamburner menu to see the off canvas menu). This would give you more space to play with for your menu items.
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I made this website with an accordion menu in a sidebar on mobile, and there is one little problem i can not solve.
If you look at the page https://lieth-schule.de and open the sidebar on a mobile device (button underneath the image banner) you can see the accordion menu. If you now open a submenu, you can only scroll if you exactly hit the scrollbar of the whole sidebar.
What do I have to change in order to be able to scroll the entire sidebar, when touching and holding anywhere inside it? Like you would do on a mobile touch device?
Most likely the scroll does not work because the opening of accordions is done through mousedown
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I have a pop-out navigation menu that appears on smaller screens when an 'open menu' button is clicked, tapped or keyed with enter or spacebar. (Javascript, CSS and HTML; no jQuery).
The navigation uses divs, rather than an unordered list, with a <nav> container but the problem outlined below happens whether the menu is in divs or an unordered list.
If a keyboard user is tabbing, opens the pop-out, continues tabbing, the user is cycled round the trapped area until either a navigation link is opened with the enter/spacebar keys or the pop-out is closed by using the enter/spacebar on the 'close button' or the Escape key is pressed (with thanks to Graham Ritchie for this code).
It works fine in general. See this Codepen that works.
BUT, if the last item in the menu is both a direct link and a parent with a sub-menu, then the trapping does not work and anyone tabbing in the pop-out menu finds themselves in the browser's address bar area outside the website itself or, in the case of this Codepen where it is not working correctly, the tabbing moves down to the 'Console, Assets, Comments...' area at the bottom of the browser.
Can anyone explain why this is happening and what I need to do to resolve it? Thank you.
I'm working on this site: http://editingplus.com.au
In the submenu Resource > Getting published, at some screen sizes when a link is clicked, instead of navigating to the link the submenu jumps to a different position and then closes. A second attempt at opening the menu and clicking the link works, but only if you try to click the same link--clicking a different link means you have to start again and click that link a further time.
This problem only occurs at smaller screen sizes where the Getting Published submenu doesn't fit to the right of the Resources submenu. Clicking on the Getting Published submenu makes it jump briefly from the left to the right of the Resources submenu before closing. At larger screen sizes where the Getting Published submenu fits to the right of the Resources submenu, links work on first click.
This screenshot shows the situation of the Getting Published submenu being to the left. It's when it's like this that the menu jumps then closes.
This is a problem with JavaScript--if I disable JS on my browser and the site falls back to CSS only menus, the links work first time.
I haven't made any custom menus. The site is using the Mins theme from GoDaddy, which is built off the Primer theme. As far as I can tell, neither of them are using any custom JS for the menus, and all the JS is standard WordPress JS.
StackOverflow recommended I check out these two other questions:
Jquery Drop Down Menu. The sub menu disappears when clicked. So, How to make the submenu stays when clicked?
Submenu disappearing when clicked in the submenu in wordpress
However, those are both to do with developing custom menus, and those menus not working ever when clicked, rather than only sometimes not working at certain screen sizes.
I'm guessing I will need to add some custom JS to this site to stop the menus not working, or somehow disable the JS so the menus roll back to pure CSS, but I'm not sure how to do either of those things.
Any help would be much appreciated!
I am using the Dopetrope meanu form html5up.net:
http://html5up.net/uploads/demos/dopetrope/left-sidebar.html
This template is simply great but I am having an issue with the left hand menu when in mobile view. When you click the famous burger icon (no matter which page) the menu slides in as expected and it works some of the time but not everytime. It is not something I have added as it does it on the official demo site (above) too.
Go to the above URL and without clicking navigation links, just scroll the page up and down a few times, then click the burger icon. Keep doing this a few times and you will find that on some occasions the left hand links and icon toggle disappears (just leaving the dark background). But if you do see the burger icon, you can click it again and the menu will show again.
This only happens on mobile (android samsung S4 mini - happens pretty much 100% of the time). Iphone 6 - happens say 40/60.
Could anyone help with providing a fix for this? Or perhaps point me to the code that calls the menu to see if I can override a setting such as z-index or call the function twice?
Many thanks for anyone who can help.
Okay, so I've got two drop-down menus on my page, Navigation, and Links. Links works normally, but Navigation disappears when I try to hover over it. I got no idea why, so I'm asking.
Why does my Navigation menu disappear when I hover over it, and how do I fix it?
My site with the error
You have an element that's hanging over the left menu named #crwrap. So when moving your mouse to the Navigation options, the mouseout is triggered because you're suddenly hovering the #crwrap element instead of the Navigation menu. It's invisible but if you use a debugging tool that supports DOM searching you'll see it covering the area of the Navigation menu options.
It's not covering the Links menu so that one does not have any problems.
If you remove #crwrap (or move it to the background using z-index: -999), it works fine for me.
Your JS to show the menus is toggled by mouseover and mouseout of the elements in your menu section. The submenus are not nested inside these elements. Therefore, when you move the mouse down toward the submenu, you trigger the mouseout on the main menu item, which is hiding the submenu.
I would recommend nesting the submenu items inside the main menu item's container.
I would also advise you check out the excellent alistapart.com article about CSS hybrid menus. It has some excellent pointers and techniques you might find useful.