By hello12345 on

Hey guys,

Is it possible to disable the parent nice menu link? For example, when you hover over the menu, I only want the menus that drop down to be linked somewhere....I don't want people to click on the top menu item....

I understand you can set it to , but i don't even want that. I want it to link to nowhere.

Thanks

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hello12345 commented

i meant to say i understand you can set it to <front> but i don't want to do that

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BradleyT commented

There's a javascript solution that basically makes the link so it doesn't go anywhere.

Put this in your template.php file (replacing pushbutton with your theme name)

function pushbutton_menu_item_link($item, $link_item) {  
  if ($item['path'] == '<none>') {
    $attributes['title'] = $link['description'];
    return '<a href="javascript:void(0)">'. $item['title'] .'</a>';
  }
  else {
    return l($item['title'], $link_item['path'], !empty($item['description']) ? array('title' => $item['description']) : array(), isset($item['query']) ? $item['query'] : NULL);
  }
}

For the URL path use < none> (without the space)

You could play around with the return value to get it to do other things too, but this works pretty well for flyout menus. Someone else deserves credit for this, it's on one of the nice menus pages somewhere.

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hello12345 commented

Thanks!

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valel46 commented

BradleyT,

I just tried this with Drupal 6 and I received the following error when I tried to enter < none> as path.

The path '< none>' is either invalid or you do not have access to it.

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waynedrupal commented

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ryanaghdam’s picture

ryanaghdam commented

Does the fix provided still work in Drupal 6?

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beddoe commented

Looking to disable links for top menu items as well. Updates on this?

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duckzland commented

I use this module to create a dummy menu item http://drupal.org/project/special_menu_items try them, its cleaner than using custom code in template.php

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Only problem is that module is for Drupal 6 only.

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duckzland commented

or you can do it jQuery way :

$('your_id_or_class').click(function(e) {
 e.preventDefault() // or return false;
});

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arunnath commented

I guess it might be possible to do this with CSS. Specifically each menu item that needs to be disabled has an id or class. CSS rules can be used to disable the hyperlinks to the particular menu using the rules:

{
pointer-events: none;
cursor: default;
}

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dago.aceves commented

http://drupal.org/project/special_menu_items
Allows you to set the path to and other nifty features for setting menu items when are not really menu links.

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mrjambi commented

Yup, special_menu_items works great. The project page indicates that D8 may address the menu link issue natively but for now this seems to be a good solution. (Though you still will likely need to play with CSS to pretty up the menu items).