Here’s a simple tip that may be useful to you if you’re just getting started with creating your own WordPress site. Sometimes when you’re setting up a dropdown menu with the built-in WordPress menu system you may want the top level item to be unclickable although still show the subnav items beneath.
On the links that you don’t want to be clickable, you’ll want to create a custom link and set its href attribute to “#”. To be clear, it’s not that you cannot click this link. Rather, it’s that it doesn’t go anywhere or take you away from the current page.
This is very easy and your dropdown menu should work as expected.
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Brilliant! I was just thinking how to do this. Of course it would be the most simplest and old school answer. Cheers!
Actually, once you add the custom link to your menu, you can remove the # so its not clickable at all, which I think is a better user experience.
But the problem is you cursor still show that the menu is clicklable.
I always do like what Lucky did above. Put any link, once you’ve save it, delete the link.
I do this, but the only issue I have is that when viewing all your pages in admin (all pages), they are not shown grouped under your ‘top link’/Parent.
Hence I still need to create an empty ‘Parent dummy page’. :-(