I am attempting to create a drop down menu which activates on click rather than on hover. So far I have the on click working with a little javascript, but whilst the sub menus show well and if another menu is clicked other submenus hide, I can't work out how to hide a sub menu if its parent is clicked.
EG in this JS fiddle I can click on "parent 1" to reveal its children and when I click on "parent 2" parent 1's children hide and Parent 2's children show. But if Parent 1's children show I want to be able to hide them by clicking on Parent 1 again, (or even better anywhere outside the children)
I have seen examples working where each parent and sub menu is given individual classes or ids. I want to avoid that as it needs to work in a cms.
Here's the basic code I have
The HTML:
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Parent 1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Parent 1 » Child 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 1 » Child 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 1 » Child 1</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 2</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Parent 2 » Child 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 2 » Child 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 2 » Child 2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 3</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Parent 3 » Child 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 3 » Child 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Parent 3 » Child 3</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
The javascript:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("li").click(function () {
$('li > ul').hide();
$(this).children("ul").toggle();
});
});
CSS is probably not necessary, but its on the fiddle if needed