By seraphangel on

Hi, i've installed drupal in the past few days, and I was wondering why my menu won't expand like it's supposed to? The only way I can get it expanded is to check the expand always option which I don't want cause it would make the navigation damn long.
You can have a look at what I have right now at, http://www.seraphstudios.net/angelchronicles/?q=node/
Is this a glitch or bug or something? How do I resolve this problem? Thank you, drupal is great but if the menus can't expand and retract then it does not meet my needs :( so sad.

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Roberto Gerola’s picture

Roberto Gerola commented

The paths that you have assigned to your menu items do exist ?
Otherwise the menu items are not showed.

tdimg’s picture

tdimg commented

This is my guess:

All links point to the same location, there is no way Drupal can tell which one of those you actually clicked and the one that Drupal seems to extend, content, doesn't have a submenu. Either you create for each of those top menu items a page or you look into a module that provides drop-down menus, e.g. Nice Menus or Jsdomenu (mind you I haven't tested either one!)

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homileo commented

I got it - I think. It was driving me nuts because I had a small PRIMARY MENU and I could not get an item to expand ONE measley level expand by clicking the expand property of the parent menu. I went back to the Menu administration and noticed I had TWO iterations of the same menu, same path (node/4) in my menu administration box. One was assigned to Primary Links and the other Navigation. By deleting the menu name under Navigation, voila! Suddenly my primary link menu expanded.

NOW, if drupal is supposed to be able to let you assign a single menu to multiple places then there's a problem but...at least my install (5.2) works now.

For what it's worth.

Scott
homileo@homileoenchristos.org

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shopscot commented

Hi.

I had this problem and search for even additional modules. What helped in my case was: Going to Administer - Site building - Menus - Primary links - there I found one block to tick for each category what I create as a primary and secondary links ( my menus ). Tick what I was need, apply settings on a bottom by using Save Configuration button and voilà everything is in a perfect order. Wanne check: http://www.evenour.me and move your mouse on Gallery.

Maybe will help, Enjoy.

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jaap76 commented

I don't know if it's helpful, but I had trouble with the expanding menu in 1 particular theme. What I did...

Open the block-navigation.tpl.php file from your selected theme.
If you don't want to expand the menu, but you want your breadcrums to show up in the menu bar while digging deeper in a site the code should be
<?php echo art_navigation_links_worker($block->content, false); ?>

If you want the menu to drop down by hovering over it, it should be
<?php echo art_navigation_links_worker($block->content, true); ?>

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adevane commented

I just created a new page and assigned it a custom url after defining its parent etc.
I also manually placed the link into the main menu.
All other pages living under this parent have the menu expanded (on the left) when their pages are open, but the new child isn't making the left-hand nav expand as the others are. Is there something I'm missing here? I cleared the cache and have been rechecking my menu set-up to no avail.
Many thanks
Drupal 6.x

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adevane commented

I did a "one of these things is not like the other" analysis and realized that in manually constructing the menu item I'd entered in a full http:// link. The other menu items referred to their path of "node/###"
Once I changed the link to the node path, the menu expanded perfectly.
So give that a try if you are manually constructing menus and they are behaving badly. I'd set up the custom urls and menus exactly as I thought they should be, but just missed this bit.
Hope this helps any future people looking for answers!