This module allows for the creation of placeholder items in the menu system that links to nothing (i.e. the has tag - #). This is useful when creating a menu structure where some menu items are simple placeholders to convey the structure of a website.

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Draven_Caine commented

This would be very useful for me if a menu item can be blank/no link.

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egil commented

Hi Draven,

So should it output <a href="" ... >Menu item name</a> or <span>Menu item name</span>?

If it is a matter of styling, you can always target empty links with css class "empty" or even with CSS attribute selectors (e.g. a[href="#"]). See http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_attribute_selectors.asp for more info on those.

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Draven_Caine commented

Persoanlly i think it would be helpful for an empty menu item to not be clickable, mouse-over-able or anything. Kinda like if you mouse-over any text or graphic that is not a link.

There are other modules that do empty menu items but they use a false link to do this which can lead to confusion for the end user. "when I mouse-over the menu item my cursor changes like its a link but nothing happens, is it broken?"

So in the end having the menu item not do anything would be best .. for me.

Hope that helps,
Draven

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egil commented

Draven, I think this is a matter of personal taste. You can certainly style you way out of having the mouse cursor change when hovering over a "empty" link etc., and having the "empty links" as links can make styling a menu tree easier. That said, I am all for flexibility, so I think this should be configurable from the admin section (e.g. empty menu items as span or anchors).

That said, I am neck deep in projects at university right now, which unfortunately have to take precedence, but I will be back ASAP and add the functionality.

Thanks for taking the time to comment by the way. Love the input!

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shadcn commented

Hi. Please have a look at http://drupal.org/project/special_menu_items. :)

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jthorson commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

egil,

As mentioned in #5, there are a few solutions which already enable this functionality, with Special Menu Items and Menu editor both coming to mind (and I know I've reviewed at least one other menu placeholder module in the last 3 months) ... can you help us understand how 'Menu Empty' compares to other existing Drupal menu placeholder solutions?

I've seen forum issues talking about the use of 'http://#', and suggestions that it causes errors in certain versions of Firefox ... haven't seen this myself, but you may want to make sure you test on multiple browsers. Example: http://drupal.org/node/51783#comment-4921474

You can remove the files[] entry from your .info file ... this is only needed for files containing object-oriented class or interface declarations. http://drupal.org/node/542202

I'd also recommend limiting the text in your README file to 80 columns wide for readability.

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misc commented

@egil has been contacted to ask if the application is abandoned.

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Status: Needs work » Postponed
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Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

Closing due to lack of activity. Feel free to reopen if you are still working on this application.

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