Title: Drop down menu without a plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Drop down menu without a plugin

 *  Resolved [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-without-a-plugin/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m trying to achieve a drop down navigation for my Pages with their SubPages
   as the children. This will be displayed in the header across the entire site.
 * I came across this plugin: [dropdown plugin](http://www.acheta.de/2006/04/18/dropdown-plugin/)
   but can’t seem to get it to work quite right, and am not too happy with the code
   it creates.
 * My question: is there anyway to generate code which will basically produce a 
   series of nested unordered lists with my Pages and SubPages so I could style 
   it into a drop down menu without the use of any plugins?
 * Thanks for any help you could give.

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 *  [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/)
 * (@vavroom)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-without-a-plugin/#post-407971)
 * Hello,
 * I’m really new to WordPress, so my solution may not work for you, but… Here’s
   what I’m thinking.
 * The default theme that comes with WP delivers pages/subpages in the sidebar in
   nested uls (I think). If you use that code in the header.php in the appropriate
   place, then use a bit of css magic, you should be able to get there.
 * Look for something like “horizontal suckerfish css menus” on google for the CSS
   styling, you should get a few hits.
 * The advantage is that it’s purely css driven, so it remains accessible and usable
   even if you access the site on a text-only browser (like a wap phone, for instance).
 * HTH
 *  Thread Starter [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-without-a-plugin/#post-407973)
 * Of course! That seems so blatantly obvious. Thank you very much.
 *  [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/)
 * (@vavroom)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-without-a-plugin/#post-407975)
 * Hey, sometimes the most obvious thing stares us in the face for hours and days
   and we don’t see it 😉 I’m glad I could help 🙂
 *  [acheta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acheta/)
 * (@acheta)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/drop-down-menu-without-a-plugin/#post-408278)
 * I’ve rewritten the dropdown menu. it now is completely css-based. no javascript
   needed anymore.
 * more [here](http://www.acheta.de/2006/05/26/sts-dropdown-css/)

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