Sub menus on Extra-Menu not displaying properly

[aengberg]

Hi all,

Using Weaver Xtreme Plus, I am hiding the menu on the homepage and using the Extra_Menu shortcode to display the menu underneath a slider instead. The idea being that the menu acts as a divider on the homepage and then reverts to the header menu on all other pages.

In terms of menu choice and function, the two menus as identical.

The problem I’m having is that on the Extra_Menu, the submenu items appear on the menu bar along with their parents instead of on a dropdown list. 

The shortcode I’m using is: [extra_menu menu_name='HomePage' menu_style='primary' menu_type='horizontal' class='homemenu']

The website is at http://titeinn.thecotswolditguy.co.uk/

To help demonstrate, I have made both menus visible. The menu at the top works, the menu 2/3 the way down is supposed to work identically but doesn’t.

There may be a clue in that any styling I do in Appearance > Theme Options > Main Options > Menus > Extra Menu has no effect on the extra menu.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

[Maureen]

I just tested this on one of my sites and it works: 

Appearance / Widgets / Your X-Plus Menu     From the drop down “Menu Type: select Standard Menu. When I selected Horizontal menu all my sub menu items showed, when I selected Standard Menu, it worked. 

[aengberg]

Thanks Maureen, that’s interesting and by using it as a widget it picks up the corrects styling. 

Only problem is then positioning it on the page – do I have to place it using position: absolute; ?

[Weaver]

The problem is type=”horizontal”. That gives you a totally horizontal menu, not a drop down.
You need to specify “standard”

[aengberg]

Wow. So simple!!

Thank you Weaver – I can put my hair back in now 🙂

[Weaver]

Perhaps “drop down” would have been a more obvious name, but the help document is pretty clear on this. And sometimes, a little horizontal menu is prefect!

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