# Summary

Special menu items is a Drupal module that provides placeholder and separator menu items.

A placeholder is a menu item which is not a link. It is useful with dynamic drop down menus where we want to have a parent menu item which is not linking to a page but just acting as a parent grouping some menu items below it.

This functionality is now in Drupal 8 core. Specify non-link menu items using a Link value of:

"route:<nolink>" (without quotes)

See #2693725: Add <nolink> to allow for non-link links .

# Project URL

https://www.drupal.org/project/special_menu_items

# Where is the code?

Unknown

# Estimated completion date

Unknown

# Dependencies

Unknown

# Who's doing the port?

Unknown

# What help do they need?

Unknown

# D8 roadmap

#2202267: Drupal 8 version of special_menu_items

# Background and reference information

#1543750: Allow menu items without path

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Set status to reflect what is reported in the D8 roadmap.
Looks like there is agreement on not needing this in D8 due to route:

@gg24 Did you assign by mistake?

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special_menu_items 8.x-1.x-dev is available.

Unfortunately, the README.txt has an incorrect description of what must be placed in the Link field when adding the Menu Link. Add route:<nolink> instead of just <nolink> .

See Nolink Description

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I've updated this issues summary with an explanation of how exactly to do this in Drupal 8, so people looking for this don't have to go search through various issues, like I did.

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