By mik_cal on

I'm slowly starting to get the hang of some Drupal basics and am not working on any fancy site. I do however like the idea of having expandable or drop-down or pop-up menus with clickable links.

I thought I could convert some of my taxonomies directly into a menu structure so I installed the DHTML menu module and the taxonomy_menu modules but haven't figured out how to use them. The documentation for them is very sparse and I am having trouble with the Drupal insiders' taxonomy (wink, wink) on how to locate information about using them.

In any case, I don't really care if I have to manually create submenus or automatically can convert a vocabulary into a menu structure: How do I get submenus into a menu that I create? I see that DHTML has neatly converted the Admin menu into an expandable structure for me but that was pre-configured by the Drupal install.

Thanks in Advance for your help!

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mik_cal commented

The title of my initial post suggest that I have already created the submenus but if you read on, you'll realize that I don't know how to create the submenus. Populating those submenus with links is of course the next step...

So..I would like to know how to create a submenu, whether using a vocabulary or just manually.

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skywalker2208 commented

To add a submenu to your menu item. When you are adding a new link to your menu you should see a drop down called parent item. Select the item you want it to be below. For example I create a new menu called top menu and I want a menu item called Autos and under that is SUV's, Trucks and Sedans. Create the Autos menu item and its parent item is top menu. Next create the SUV's link and the parent item is Autos. After you have finished adding the setting up the menu go to the blocks page and you should see a block called DTHML: (your menu name). From the example it would be DHTML: top menu;

Hope that helps.