[SOLVED] Extra Arrows in Dropdown menu when content marked don't show on menu?

[Jack @ PharSide]

Hi all,

I have a quick one for you hopefully. I am having a problem where sub links of my navigation have content associated with them and even though they are marked to not show in menu, there seems to be some represenation of them on the menu that seems confusing to the user. For instance, this particular site has a section of the navigation which is broken down into 4 sub sections (see image). Each of these sub sections have content associated with them but are marked to NOT SHOW IN MENU. The actual text and links do not show up but as you can see in the image, there is a misleading arrow with nothing there. Is this an input error on the content editor or does the system try to visually show there are sub pages associated with the arrow? Either way, can we only use the arrow when the link is supposed to show in the menu?



Any advise on this one would greatly be appreciated.

[RonnyK]

SmackDown,

you might want to try (on the childs of one parent first) if this happens as well if the children are NOT active and NOT shown in menu.

Ronny

[Jack @ PharSide]

Yeah, I don't get it? All are marked as don't show in menu and if I select not active - page is 404. These pages simply need to be associated with the parent categories. The don't need to be in the main navigation though.

Any ideas?

[Jack @ PharSide]

Ok, so it defaults to an arrow anytime you have child content even if it is marked as not in menu. This is an issue for me. Any ideas on how to remove the arrow completely worst case? The easiest and least to crash the system?

[truslack]

I think you could remove the arrow by deleting its image file.

What is your URL?

[RonnyK]

OR move the pages away to from the parent.

Ronny

[Jack @ PharSide]

I removed the arrow tag (actually commented it out of the css). I would like to be able to use the arrows but limit it to only sections that actually have active menu sub-content. If something is marked to not show on menu - it probably shouldn't.

Cheers for the feedback and this one is closed

[Dr.CSS]

Any reason you have children under those pages if they don't show in menu, maybe put all those children under another sectionheader that is set for Parent: none and not shown in menu then you can still get to those pages thru links elsewhere and still use the arrow for pages that do have shown children like it defaults to...

[Jack @ PharSide]

I think it was more of a content organization thing. This non profit has 20 or so editors with all of their own sections. The site will have probably close to 200 pages. Filing content under these parent categories absolutely made sense to me for a content management and organizational standpoint.

[Dr.CSS]

Have you tried it with the...

(optional) number_of_levels="1" - This setting will only allow the menu to only display a certain number of levels deep.

Set to 2 may make it ignore the third level all together...