How to Make One of My Top Level Nav Items Not Load a Resource?

Working with wayfinder, and I have one top level nav item that will have 2 or 3 items in a drop menu. I really don't have any content for use as a landing page. Is there a way to set this one nav item to do nothing but serve as a trigger for the drop menu?

Is this something I set on the parent folder resource settings?

You could use FirstChildRedirect

If you put rel="category" in the Attributes field of the resource, then use the &categoryFoldersTpl property in the Wayfinder snippet, you can use a chunk tpl that doesn't have the <a> tags. I usually use <span> tags instead, then in my CSS I can style the span to match the links in the rest of the menu items.

You can also add a class or id to that parent and then preventDefualt onclick with javascrtipt.

Using jQuery you can have something like this:

Thanks for all of the great suggestions. I'll try them out.

This is basically the same as firstchildredirect,

but It might be helpful to create those first level items as weblinks aimed at the first item in your list. You can optionally hide these items from your navigation if you don't want to have two links aiming at the same content.

Cheers,

pepebe

Quote from: pepebe at Oct 13, 2014, 07:28 AM

This is basically the same as firstchildredirect,

but It might be helpful to create those first level items as weblinks aimed at the first item in your list. You can optionally hide these items from your navigation if you don't want to have two links aiming at the same content.

Cheers,

pepebe

This sounds like the quickest and easiest method to implement. Thanks for the tip. And, coincidentally, the first child is the most important page I want users to get to.

Or, make that document type a weblink and as url link to the firts item in your dropdown?

Yes. I think the weblink might be the way to go. Have to implement and make sure it doesn't impeded my current functionality for the mobile version of the menu. Thanks for the tip.