[rhenry3369Participant]

Hello,

Thanks for this amazing forum, only rarely do I have issues that can’t be solved by searching… but I have two that I can’t seem to resolve:

1. I’ve created a nice drop-down menu, but it doesn’t have any arrows (that appear next to the top-level menu items) that inform visitors that it is a drop down menu. How can I add these arrows?

2. I want to make it so the top-level item showing on the menu is just text, not a link. Then the sub-menu items that appear in the drop down menu are linked to other pages on my site. Is this possible? My URL is TrendLizard.com.

Thanks!

[rhenry3369Participant]

Sorry, one other thing:

3. Can I make the top level times show up bold while the submenu items are not bold?

And I realize I didn’t mention it initially, but this menu is in a sidebar. Thanks!

[John EzraMember]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in! Both are possible. The first one should be automatic, drop down arrows should appear for submenus. Something may be conflicting.

Would you mind providing us with login credentials so we can take a closer look? To do this, you can make a post with the following info:

– Link to your site
– WordPress Admin username / password
– FTP credentials

Don’t forget to select Set as private reply. This ensures your information is only visible to our staff.

Regarding #2, you can create custom links that link to just the “#” symbol as the URL. You can then place sub menu links under it.

Let us know how that goes. Hope this helps – thanks!

[rhenry3369Participant]

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[Paul RModerator]

Hi,

You can use the custom links option in your menu to create a menu item without creating the page.

http://screencast.com/t/Q59lmVRJ2

Then to make it bold, add highlight-menu in the class field of your menu item

http://screencast.com/t/wFhQnFayH

After that add this in Appearance > Customize > Custom > Edit Global CSS

.x-navbar .highlight-menu {
    font-weight:bold;
}

Hope that helps.

[rhenry3369Participant]

Thank you… this seemed to bold all menu items, including sub-menu items… any way to just bold the top level menu items?

I was also still hoping to figure out why my menu doesn’t show any arrows to indicate a drop down. Thanks!

[John EzraMember]

Hi there,

Thanks for updating the thread! You can add this under Custom > CSS in the Customizer or in your child theme’s style.css file.

ul#menu-menu li a {
    font-weight: bold;
}

.x-navbar .desktop .sub-menu li > a {
    font-weight:normal!important;
}

Regarding your menu not having any dropdown arrows, would you have happen to solve this already? Your menus with submenus have arrows on our end.

Let us know how that goes. Hope this helps – thanks!

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