Just trying to dive into jquery and forgive me if this has already been answered. Searched but couldn't find an example relevant to what I'm trying to do.
I have a vertical menu with some sub menus. It is working that when the top level menu is clicked the sub menu opens up. The problem is that I would like the sub menu to stay open when one of sub-menu items is clicked. As it is now, when a sub-menu item is clicked the menu collapses.
Here is my code:
// Add class of drop if item has sub-menu
$('ul.sub-menu').closest('li').addClass('drop');
// Left Sidebar Main Navigation
var menu_ul = $('.menu > li.drop > ul'),
menu_a = $('.menu > li.drop > a');
menu_ul.hide();
menu_a.click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
if(!$(this).hasClass('active')) {
menu_a.removeClass('active');
menu_ul.filter(':visible').slideUp('normal');
$(this).addClass('active').next().stop(true,true).slideDown('normal');
} else {
$(this).removeClass('active');
$(this).next().stop(true,true).slideUp('normal');
}
});
I think if I try and translate what I want into a clear coder type sentence it would read like this. Basically I need to query the DOM for any active menu that has sub-menu, and if the page is showing one of the submenu items, then display the sub-menu dropdown.