How to create sub menus properly

By hma66 on 16 Aug 2017 at 09:56 UTC

Hello from a beginner,

I am creating the following website. http://halaltimes.hitechsol.net/

To shows caegories, I added lots of categories in the category menuy area under Structure--menu. However, every time I want to rearrange these categories into sub and sub-categories, it throws me out displaying no change at all where all the categories are simply stacked one after the other

Any solution to the problem.

Thanks

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VM commented 17 August 2017 at 01:52

I cannot duplicate your issue. test on a clean installation of Drupal (no contrib modules, no contrib themes). If it works as expected in a clean environment, then the issue is likely something module related and you will need to work to determine which module is interfering.

How to create sub menus properly

hma66 commented 17 August 2017 at 15:55

Thanks for proposing the steps. Unfortunately, the situation remains the same even after trying it several times. I can not create drop down menus.

I have checked the online documentation for the menu issues. I also watched several youtube tutorials to solve this issue. but to no avail.

Just for your reference,

Thanks again

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VM commented 18 August 2017 at 02:38

It's no longer clear what your issue is. Drupal doesn't include 'drop down' menus in core. In your opening post you state 'sub menus' now you are asking about 'drop downs'. Which is it?

Again - I can create submenus without issue in all of my installed by simply setting them under a parent menu items and saving the form.

You also did not take the time to provide any information related to the previous debugging question.

After you re-arrange your

adminMN2023 commented 17 August 2017 at 19:59

After you re-arrange your categories:
1 - does it not save the new order?
2 - do they all become not active?

May be symptomatic of a common problem.

Menu Items do not arrange properly

hma66 commented 18 August 2017 at 01:51

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately, the answer to both of your question is No. May I know how to solve this common problem?

Just to clarify things further, let me rephrase what I have done so far and what the result is. I am using Zetra news theme by weebpal. They created a category area in the Taxonomy region. Categories about various news topics are listed.

they use this as a category menu and listed it in the primary menu block layout area. Additionally, they have created another link in the Structure region titled Taxonomy Menu. I clicked on the button of this Taxonomy Menu button and just clicked the button All menus entries expanded. After saving it the problems started. The drop down menus were gone and they won`t come back even after unclicking all menus expanded entry.

Thanks and regards

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VM commented 18 August 2017 at 02:40

expansion of menu items in core is there for 'secondary menus'. As core does not include drop down menus, the question then becomes what modules is providing those drops downs and is the taxonomy menu module compatible with it.

The drop down menus WERE

hma66 commented 18 August 2017 at 02:53

The drop down menus WERE there. However, I make4 any changes they are gone. Whwen I revert the changes, even then they won`t come back.

For your reference, I am using the following theme. http://demo.weebpal.com/drupal8/zetraz/

you can see the red menu bar does show couple of menu items with sub menus as well.

Hello VM,

hma66 commented 18 August 2017 at 05:17

Hello VM,

Sorry for being too ignorant about Drupal. I thought that maybe, sub-menus and drop down menus are the same. Anyways, I want to be able to create a menu, say, for cosmetics. But this belongs to a country which is, for eample, Malaysia which comes under South East Region. I want my posts show up under cosmetics category plus the main category and sub and sub-sub categories will be regions--Southeast Asia--Malaysia.

My question is how to display Regions
Regions (main menu)
Southeast Asia (sub menu)
Malaysia (sub-sub menu)

Whether you call it a drop down menu or a sub menu, I am actually looking for some thing similar.

Thanks for being patient.

Thanks and regards

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VM commented 18 August 2017 at 14:56

I understand that the drop downs where there. However, what isn't clear is what was providing them since core does not. It's also possible that the feature is built into the theme that makes them slide down. That said, and because some of them work as expected, I would dig further into the advice of CB_Dru1 particularly in a situation where there are a significant amount of menu items included in any of those that aren't working. As a debug step, I'd reduce the amount of menu items and test to confirm.