Symphony.

Hi hi,

Navigation Groups are a great feature that’s been added in 2.0.3!

I have one minor suggestion for a bit of a usability improvement.

If a navigation group has only one section in it, would it be possible to let the group’s heading become a link so you can instantly click through to the section index. This stops you having to hover over the section, then click on the dropdown.

Minor I know, but it’s the little things :)

What does everyone think? The only caveat I can see is that it might break a bit of convention that users are used to having a dropdown menu when they roll onto on an item on the ‘Publish’ bar?

I like.

Yeah, I could get behind that. Have never been a huge fan of dropdowns to begin with…

Have never been a huge fan of dropdowns to begin with…

Necessary evil.

It might be a little confusing since until now you couldn’t click the menuitems, only the dropdownitems. And then you’ll have some wich are clickable and some wich aren’t.

I would like the top item of the dropdown menu to be clickable and show a page with all the submenu items. I have a hard time doing things on my iPhone because there is no hover with a touch screen.

@MrBlank that’s not true! Just tap the menu item and it will popup.

Glad I discovered this thread - I am currently building a small site with 2.0.7 and would love to be able to skip a click and eliminate the section dropdown for a navigation group that only holds one section. I hadn’t thought of this before, but now that I’m using the “static section” extension, I’d love to take it one step further. Is there currently any way to achieve this?

It might be a little confusing since until now you couldn’t click the menuitems, only the dropdownitems. And then you’ll have some wich are clickable and some wich aren’t.

I don’t think so - the behavior of static sections works great for me and this would just take it one step further. I think as long as the behavior is consequent in “no more clicks than necessary”, it won’t be more confusing than dropdowns with only one item to choose.

I think as long as the behavior is consequent in “no more clicks than necessary”, it won’t be more confusing than dropdowns with only one item to choose.

The current system doesn’t need more clicks than what you’re proposing (the dropdown is opening on hover, not on click). :-)

would love to be able to skip a click and eliminate the section dropdown for a navigation group that only holds one section

This could be done with an Extension that adds some JavaScript to the head. The JS would:

• iterate over the navigation list
• look for any top level <li> elements that have a single child <li> within
• grab the href attribute of the link inside the only child <li>
• wrap the top level <li> text in an anchor with this href

:-)

the dropdown is opening on hover, not on click

Dang, I got carried away with that one … “skip a click” just sounded too great. I actually meant “skip a navigation level”. Better?

This could be done with an Extension that adds some JavaScript to the head

Sounds fairly simple, but simple is way out of reach regarding my JavaScript and Extension development skills. Anyone in for this one?

Anyone in for this one?

How about this: One-Click Navigation

Or this one: Single Navgroup Behaviour.

Nick: I so knew this would happen! :-)

You took that extra minute to write a README file #fail

But my code is much cleaner and I have stylesheets #win :-)

I love to watch you working.

I love to watch you working.

Work? Oh yes, I should probably get back to that.

So should I.

:-)

Holla! Sorry I didn’t reply earlier, I was actually working, hehe :)

You guys are fast, thanks so much! Documentation always wins, but then I really like the name of nick’s extension (although phoque probably wouldn’t approve), so I downloaded both.

but then I really like the name of nick’s extension

Noooooo…. but, but, but… mine is nicer! :-D