[support] menu not appearing expanded

Sarah Adams mr.sanders at geekjock.ca
Tue Aug 14 13:35:48 UTC 2007


>>>> I just created a new page on my site, and added a menu item to link 
>>>> to it. I set the menu item as the child of a previously added menu 
>>>> item, but the new item does not appear below the parent when I click 
>>>> on the parent. I thought maybe this means I need to force the parent 
>>>> item to be expanded, but even then the sub-item never appears.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong, or if I've 
>>>> misunderstood how menu items should behave. Any tips appreciated!
>>>>
>>> Is this just on one menu, or on all menus? For example, does the admin
>>> menu expand properly?
>> 
>> This is just in the primary links menu, the admin menu is expanding
>> properly. I double-checked to make sure it wasn't just my theme screwing
>> things up by setting the site back to the garland theme, and still had
>> the same problem.
>> 
> Hmmm... Haven't run into this. 
> 
> I've double checked this on my own 5.1 install and it works.  
> 
> Can I double-check to make sure that you've not made the same simple
> mistake that I'm always making?  When you edit the sub-page directly,
> you see the parent menu item correctly AND there's a non-blank title
> field under the menu section, yes? (I'm always forgetting to fill in
> menu titles when adding an item to a sub-menu.)

Yes, the parent menu item appears correctly, and the child item has a
non-blank title.

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