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Posted January 14Jan 14 Bug: This item cannot be moved here. If you select a menu item and try to place it under and item which cannot have a sub-menu, there is a message stating that 'this item cannot be moved here'. If you then drag and drop to place the menu item else where, you get the same message regardless of whether you can place it there or not. Submenu's I don't know if this was done by design or not, but not being able to place submenu(s) under certain items (menus that are applications etc) as is a big annoyance when trying to build your own menu. Can you please allow submenus under any item, up until your sub-menu limit (which looks to be three?), please?
January 19Jan 19 Hello, Navigation submenus in v5 are toggled on click/tap. It's therefore not possible for normal navigation links (such as application links) to be submenu toggles, because clicking them would open the dropdown menu instead of opening the link.
January 19Jan 19 Author 1 hour ago, Ehren said: Hello, Navigation submenus in v5 are toggled on click/tap. It's therefore not possible for normal navigation links (such as application links) to be submenu toggles, because clicking them would open the dropdown menu instead of opening the link. That's my point. The previous menu version was 'on hover' and then click. So, if I wanted Forums as my main menu item, I could still have submenu items under that. In fact, most menu system I have used or written, will use Hover to open the main menu's, or at least give a choice for both types. Hover or Click.
January 19Jan 19 Version 5 has had a huge focus on accessibility. A menu which relies on clicks rather than hover is typically a far more accessible approach. Inspiration was taken from the “File, Edit, etc” menus in both macOS and Windows, where a click is used to open the menu. You could change this to a hover menu by using custom JS, however it wouldn’t allow you to reliably add a link to the submenu header, since those are button elements.
January 20Jan 20 I'd love to see hover to reveal a large drop down instead of clicking to show the tiny drop downs as current. Having the ability to have even a full width drop down and customing the sub menu contents with images would be very sexy. I'm a huge fan of the public invision navigation styling.... would love to have similar for our communities future IC5 site 🙂
January 21Jan 21 I guess not? Devs not looking to release how they made it?If so, is there a third party dev who could assit with a similar solution?
January 22Jan 22 We wouldnt generally release the code to our own customisations, no. Thats not to say we never will, but not generally
January 22Jan 22 41 minutes ago, Marc said:We wouldnt generally release the code to our own customisations, no. Thats not to say we never will, but not generallyHow would I go about building a similar navigation?
January 22Jan 22 Im not one of the developers myself. You would need a designer to assist you with creating something like that really
January 24Jan 24 Author On 1/19/2025 at 11:12 PM, Ehren said:Version 5 has had a huge focus on accessibility. A menu which relies on clicks rather than hover is typically a far more accessible approach.Inspiration was taken from the “File, Edit, etc” menus in both macOS and Windows, where a click is used to open the menu. You could change this to a hover menu by using custom JS, however it wouldn’t allow you to reliably add a link to the submenu header, since those are button elements. This approach has removed functionality commonly found in other menu systems. I already have plenty of coding tasks, so I’d prefer not to spend additional time working around core restrictions that could easily have been avoided.With the new system, I am unable to place sub-menu items under main menu items, such as 'Forums'. This forces me to create additional, redundant menu items just to achieve the expected functionality. Ultimately, a menu is simply a collection of arrays.If you do not plan to allow on-hover functionality (which really should be a user option), then at the very least, provide a pull-down menu icon that can be placed alongside a main menu item. When clicked, this icon should display the associated sub-menu items. This way the main menu item is still clickable, and so are the sub menus.