Title: Make parent menu clickable
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Make parent menu clickable

 *  [addatomlunare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamtudorlane/)
 * (@adamtudorlane)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-parent-menu-clickable/)
 * This has been driving me mad! How on earth can i make a parent item in a dropdown
   menu clickable?! Currently i have to have sub menus to go to that section.
 * The site is: [http://carwitter.com](http://carwitter.com)

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 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-parent-menu-clickable/#post-7691192)
 * In the wp-admin under menus you just have to replace the ‘#’ with the url for
   the parent item.
 * If that is not working it might be an issue with the theme and I would advise
   contacting the theme developer.
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [addatomlunare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamtudorlane/)
 * (@adamtudorlane)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-parent-menu-clickable/#post-7691277)
 * Hmm but they arent clickable as they are a dropdown.
    Nowhere does it give me
   the choice to replace anything as i’m adding in categories to the menu.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-parent-menu-clickable/#post-7691279)
 * I am not sure how else I can explain it. Do you see the menus under appearance
   >> menus in the admin? If so you can change the link there by change the “#” 
   text under the url field for the link to the full address of the page you want
   to link to.
 *  [mkadutskyi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkadutskyi/)
 * (@mkadutskyi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-parent-menu-clickable/#post-8354453)
 * I have the same problem. In Appearance > Menu All my tabs have urls or linked
   to the Pages but when it is rendered on web site top level menu tabs which have
   submenu don’t have url they it just replaced with ‘#’
 *  [coloradoskiier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coloradoskiier/)
 * (@coloradoskiier)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-parent-menu-clickable/#post-9002472)
 * In case anyone else runs into this issue, it’s not a problem with the menu settings.
 * If your WordPress theme uses Bootstrap for a responsive layout, then the problem
   is most likely a file called **wp_bootstrap_navwalker.php** that’s part of your
   theme.
 * There’s code in that file which ALWAYS render the top-most (parent) menu link
   with a ‘#’ URL if there are child pages below it.
 * Here’s a StackOverflow post describing the problem:
    [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25692514/bootstrap-how-do-i-make-dropdown-navigation-parent-links-an-active-link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25692514/bootstrap-how-do-i-make-dropdown-navigation-parent-links-an-active-link)
 * Although the “official” solution in that post is a JavaScript solution, the solution
   I chose is the one by Sohail Qureshi just below the JavaScript one. It involves
   updating the code in wp_bootstrap_navwalker.php to correctly render top-level
   links. That solution worked perfectly for me.

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## Tags

 * [clickable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/clickable/)
 * [dropdown](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dropdown/)
 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [parent menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parent-menu/)

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 * Last reply from: [coloradoskiier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coloradoskiier/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-parent-menu-clickable/#post-9002472)
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