Title: Dropdowns Overlapping
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Dropdowns Overlapping

 *  Resolved [webinkdesigning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webinkdesigning/)
 * (@webinkdesigning)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdowns-overlapping/)
 * Hello;
    Please see my wordpress site at [http://www.orofinophysicaltherapy.com](http://www.orofinophysicaltherapy.com)
 * I added your menu to the sidebar: [http://orofinophysicaltherapy.com/mission-statement/](http://orofinophysicaltherapy.com/mission-statement/)
   And the dropdowns are overlapping; please help. Thank you for your time!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-menu-wizard/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-menu-wizard/)

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 *  Plugin Author [wizzud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wizzud/)
 * (@wizzud)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdowns-overlapping/#post-6861754)
 * I’m very sorry but the styling of the menu is down to your theme (or possibly
   some other menu-based plugin, but the theme is most likely).
 * From what I can see I’m guessing that your FitnessCenter theme – which appears
   to be Bootstrap-based – has implemented a Nav Menu Walker that is preventing 
   CMW’s walker from running (none of CMW’s classes have been applied) … this means
   that it is unlikely that CMW is filtering correctly, if at all.
 * Apart from that, your theme has some CSS styling in place that sets very high
   z-index values on the menu items – higher than the bootstrap CSS. If I remove
   that high z-index then the sub-menu appears above the root-level items.
    However,
   your theme also sets display as inline-block on the sub menu items, which doesn’t
   help the layout of the sub-menu items (short items appear beside each other in
   varying size blocks), and a max-width on the ULs, combined with bootstrap’s no-
   wrap, means that long items overflow their container. Added to which the text
   colour (bootstrap’s) of the sub menu items means the text is almost invisible
   against the background (your theme’s) until you actually hover on the item’s 
   link.
 * I appreciate that you may not find this particularly helpful, but there’s not
   a lot I can do about it. If you can’t sort the CSS out yourself (preferably using
   a child theme, if you’re not already), perhaps you need to consult the theme 
   providers? I’m very sorry, but even if CMW was allowed to run properly, it still
   doesn’t provide any styling or javascript … for precisely this reason. And, given
   that CMW _is_ being scuppered, it might be better to just remove it … maybe your
   theme provides a suitable alternative?
 *  Thread Starter [webinkdesigning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webinkdesigning/)
 * (@webinkdesigning)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdowns-overlapping/#post-6861809)
 * Thank you so much for the above info. It really does help.
 * Do you have any suggestions for me? The theme makers are not being any help… 
   and I really would love to get this menu working!!!
 * I know it is not really your job to help me…. but these menu’s are driving me
   crazy!!! Any help you can offer would be much appreciated…
 * P.S. your product seems to be solid; I wish I could use it! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [wizzud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wizzud/)
 * (@wizzud)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdowns-overlapping/#post-6861866)
 * I’m sorry. Fitness Center is a paid-for theme so I can’t just download it a take
   a look. And even if I could, I’m not in a position to be able to do anything 
   about changing it.
 * To tweak a theme you really need to be running a child theme, otherwise any changes
   you make to the main theme are lost whenever that theme gets an update, and you
   have to re-apply them. That would be the first thing to ask your theme provider:
   How do I run a child theme?
 * Once you a running a child of Fitness Center then you can start playing with 
   the CSS – using any decent modern browser’s Developer capabilities. Also, you
   _might_ then be able to do something about the nav walker that is getting in 
   CMW’s way, but that very much depends on how it is implemented and where/if it
   is used.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdowns-overlapping/#post-6861866)
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