Create a menu option with no link for sub menus

txt2nite

Hello this seems easy but couldn't find the answer

I have a menu with sub links. I want to make selector menu option have no link, how do I do this? The usual method is just using a #, but this doesnt seem to work here.

Can you help?

Oh and my domain is shop.tubemaper.com thanks

Hikin' Mike

Worked fine on my testing page. You can see it live here: https://gallery.imagesinthebackcountry.com/Smugmug-customization/Customize-Dropdowns, it's the 'Placement' link.

Hikin' Mike

@txt2nite said:
Oh and my domain is shop.tubemaper.com thanks

You posted the wrong site. It should be this: https://shop.tubemapper.com/

txt2nite

thanks if I click on the links with + on them with the desktop version, it goes to a blank page. Click on the menu on left

Lille Ulven

The trouble exists for both of you.
If you set the value of the URL-field to '#' as you did, it is translated within the code to <a href=http://#" >xxx</a> instead of the <a href=#>xxx</a> which you would need to return to the same page you are on (or in Smugs case to get to the contact form it looks like).
I'll have to try it tonight to see what works, thinking that maybe leaving the URL-field empty might do the trick to not take you to a blank page.

txt2nite

Ha ha, leaving it blank seems to work.

Its funny I thought I knew the answer and created a problem that didn't ever exist

Hikin' Mike

@Lille Ulven said:
The trouble exists for both of you.
If you set the value of the URL-field to '#' as you did, it is translated within the code to <a href=http://#" >xxx</a> instead of the <a href=#>xxx</a> which you would need to return to the same page you are on (or in Smugs case to get to the contact form it looks like).
I'll have to try it tonight to see what works, thinking that maybe leaving the URL-field empty might do the trick to not take you to a blank page.

I don't understand. I used that on that example page and I'm not seeing anything wrong.

Hikin' Mike

@Lille Ulven said:
The trouble exists for both of you.
If you set the value of the URL-field to '#' as you did, it is translated within the code to <a href=http://#" >xxx</a> instead of the <a href=#>xxx</a> which you would need to return to the same page you are on (or in Smugs case to get to the contact form it looks like).
I'll have to try it tonight to see what works, thinking that maybe leaving the URL-field empty might do the trick to not take you to a blank page.

I see now. For some reason on my example page, my 'About Me' page shows http://# in the custom URL section. Not sure how that happened, but I fixed it as it now goes to me WordPress page's 'About Me'. However, the 'Placeholder' menu items still show # in the URL section, and works as expected.

Lille Ulven

@Hikin' Mike I checked your 'Placeholder' menu item, in Firefox it works (staying on the same site, but being shown as a link). In Safari, Chrome, and Opera it will go to a blank page...well in Safari it will actually show you an error message: "Safari cannot open the page "#" because the address is invalid".
The code I get extracted for that menu item 'Placeholder' on your website looks like this:

<li class="sm-page-widget-nav-toplink" id="yui_3_8_0_1_1542388527043_1132">
<a href="http://#" id="yui_3_8_0_1_1542388527043_1216">Placeholder</a>
<div class="yui3-menu yui3-menu-vertical yui3-menu-notouch sm-user-ui" id="yui_3_8_0_1_1542388527043_1202">
<ul class="yui3-menu-children" tabindex="0" role="menu" aria-expanded="true">
<li id="menuItem-yui_3_8_0_1_1542388527043_1201" class="yui3-menu-item" aria-hidden="false" aria-labelledby="yui_3_8_0_1_1542388527043_1206" role="menuitem">
<a href="http://#" class="yui3-menu-label" data-item-id="menuItem-yui_3_8_0_1_1542388527043_1201" id="yui_3_8_0_1_1542388527043_1206">Sub-menu Placeholder</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>

So both the 'Placeholder' and the 'Sub-menu Placeholder' have the same href=http://# code that won't quite work (except for Firefox)

Hope that helps

@txt2nite good to know that it was as I thought

Hikin' Mike

Makes sense, since I use Firefox...lol! Fixed it. Thanks!

Lille Ulven

You are welcome, @Hikin' Mike