[support] Menu Items w/o Links

[Kenneth Jacker]

[ Sorry, LONG email ... and more easily read with a monospaced font ... ]

I need to use (Drupal 7) a menu where, for the most part, the only menu
items that are associated with links are the "leaf items".

Say I have a "Family" menu.

When completely collapsed, it looks like this (the "-->" I've appended
below indicates that the corresponding menu item *is* associated with a
link):

   > Family    -->

Clicking on "Family" expands the menu to this (as well as changing the
page content to "family info"):

   V Family    -->
     > Parents
       Siblings
       Pets

Finally, clicking on "Parents" produces this:

   V Family    -->
     V Parents
         Father    -->
         Mother    -->
       Siblings
       Pets

Hopefully the above makes sense!

So, if the user clicks on "Family", "Father", or "Mother", the content
will change corresponding to the linked page.  OTOH, clicking on
"Parents", "Siblings", or "Pets", causes *no* change in the content, but
does expand/contract the menu where necessary.

This seems like a very common need.  I searched the Internet (maybe not
enough!), but didn't find a simple, completely working solution.

The "Menu item container" project looked promising, but it appears to be
available only for D6.

Is the "Special menu items" module the "way to go"?  I installed it.
But when I click on a non-linked menu item (e.g., "Parents" above),
the sub-menu doesn't expand ... the text is there, but is inactive.

Your comments/suggestions are appreciated!
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker       khj at cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept       www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA