I'm in no way a web designer, but I'm doing volunteer work for my church. Our site currently has 5 main tabs with dropline menus upon hovering. What is best practice regarding clicking on the main menu tabs themselves? Should clicking on the main menu tab take the user to a page? We currently have it so that the main menu tabs aren't clickable, except for the main menu tab of course.
Best practice for main menu tabs
- Thread starter merrittjr
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Matthew3man
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Clickable is always best.
It's best to give each menu a clicked behaviour at the very least otherwise users are left a bit frustrated. As for menu techniques, I would use nested lists for example:
Keep us posted on the end result.
It's best to give each menu a clicked behaviour at the very least otherwise users are left a bit frustrated. As for menu techniques, I would use nested lists for example:
Code:
<ul>
<li><a href="#" title="item 1">menu item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#" title="item 2">menu item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#" title="item 3">menu item 3</a>
[INDENT]<ul>
<li><a href="#" title="subitem 1">submenu item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#" title="subitem 2">submenu item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#" title="subitem 3">submenu item 3</a></li>
</ul>[/INDENT]
</li>
<li><a href="#" title="item 4">menu item 4</a></li>
</ul>Keep us posted on the end result.