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Guess this wasn't as easy as I thought.
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dropdown-working.txt

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Hello,<br />
<br />
I'm working on a dropdown menu that has 3 levels, but when the 1st level is expanded, both the 2nd and 3rd need to show. &nbsp;I have all the markup and CSS the way it needs to be so it looks perfect. &nbsp;The only issue is that I can't seem to modify this jQuery script to leave the 3rd level expanded when hovering off and on the 2nd level menu. &nbsp;<br />
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The way it works now, is that you hover over the first, and both the 2 and 3rd show. This is good. &nbsp;The problem is as you hover over the rest of the items, and on and off the 2nd level ul.dropdown, the script hides the 3rd level menu. I've tried using :not, &nbsp;parents, children to exclude the 3rd level, and I know this should be easy, but I guess I just suck at jQuery I guess because it's not working. <br />
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Also, I cannot change the classes of the &lt;ul&gt; because they are being controlled by a CMS.<br />
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I've attached a txt file &nbsp;with a working example of the markup, CSS and script - just change the extension to html. &nbsp;The jQuery in question is in the &lt;head&gt; section. Any help would be greatly appreciated ;)<br />
<br />
Thank you!<br />
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Working example of markup, css and jquery

dropdown.txt

Hello,

I'm working on a dropdown menu that has 3 levels, but when the 1st level is expanded, both the 2nd and 3rd need to show.  I have all the markup and CSS the way it needs to be so it looks perfect.  The only issue is that I can't seem to modify this jQuery script to leave the 3rd level expanded when hovering off and on the 2nd level menu.  

The way it works now, is that you hover over the first, and both the 2 and 3rd show. This is good.  The problem is as you hover over the rest of the items, and on and off the 2nd level ul.dropdown, the script hides the 3rd level menu. I've tried using :not,  parents, children to exclude the 3rd level, and I know this should be easy, but I guess I just suck at jQuery I guess because it's not working. 

Also, I cannot change the classes of the <ul> because they are being controlled by a CMS.

I've attached a txt file  with a working example of the markup, CSS and script - just change the extension to html.  The jQuery in question is in the <head> section. Any help would be greatly appreciated ;)

Thank you!

jQuery Horizontal Dropdown Menu with a Slight Twist

jQuery (Core) is a cross-browser JavaScript library that provides abstractions for common client-side tasks such as Document Object Model (DOM) traversal, DOM manipulation, event handling, animation and Ajax. jQuery also provides a platform to create plugins that extend jQuery's capabilities beyond those already provided by the library.

jQuery

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.

JavaScript

Web development includes all aspects of presenting content on intranets and the Internet, including delivery development, protocols, languages and standards, server software, browser clients, databases and multimedia generation.

Web Development

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information to be displayed in a web browser, providing both the structure and content for what is sent from a web server through the use of tags. The current implementation of the HTML specification is HTML5.

HTML

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language. Usually used to change web pages and user interfaces written in HTML, it can also be applied to any kind of XML document. CSS is designed primarily to distinguish the content of a document from its presentation.