From discussions in #1137920: Fix toolbar on small screen sizes and redesign toolbar for desktop several folks want to determine if a menu link with sub items should navigate to the link's destination or if clicking the link should reveal the item's sub-items.
Here is an example:
A usability study should be undertake to determine what expectations user's have regarding this interaction.
This issue is related to #1846970: [meta] Responsive Toolbar follow-ups.
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Comments
Comment #1
Bojhan commentedHistory; During the usability testing we saw people expected clicking on the menu item would always trigger opening the row the indicator then used was to small. A redesign was done, that added significant weight to the "opening". Contributors noted they also initially missed that you could click the > to expand, in the primary issue to get this change in.
In my mind the interaction pattern of clicking on the label to expand, is an expected pattern and having a small expand icon is both hard to easily hit on the desktop as on the mobile which decreases efficiency.
Comment #2
tkoleary commentedSince the menu persists through a page load I think we can trigger expansion from the link because we can both go to the new page *and* expand the menu, *and* highlight the active trail.
Comment #3
wim leersI think a better solution was proposed in #1855066: In the "menu" toolbar tray, clicking/tapping white space should show the child level.