Dropdown in Bootstrap nav not working

You cannot fire a dropdown with a click event when the element being clicked is a link the link has priority.

if you want the dropdown to display either take the link off the top element of the menu or user hover with something like:

.dropdown-toggle:hover dropdown-menu{display:block;}

Cd&

Ok, will try that. This is the exact code given here: http://www.tutorialrepublic.com/twitter-bootstrap-tutorial/bootstrap-dropdowns.php They have:

            <li class="dropdown">

                <a href="#" data-toggle="dropdown" class="dropdown-toggle">Messages <b class="caret"></b></a>

                <ul class="dropdown-menu">

                    <li><a href="#">Inbox</a></li>

                    <li><a href="#">Drafts</a></li>

                    <li><a href="#">Sent Items</a></li>

                    <li class="divider"></li>

                    <li><a href="#">Trash</a></li>

                </ul>

            </li>

OK, I changed it to this, same problem:

    <li data-toggle="dropdown" class="dropdown dropdown-toggle btn btn-green">Diabetic Meals <b class="caret"></b></li>
                    <ul role="menu mainmenu" class="dropdown-menu">
                        <li><a href="living-with-diabetes.html">Living with Diabetes</a></li>
                        <li><a href="nutrition.html">Diabetic Nutrition</a></li>
                             <li><a href="good-diabetic-diet-news.html">Diabetic News</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>

I don't know how but you have now got 5 validation errors in the page right where the menu is and they are serious structural errors.  I can't make it any simpler or straight forward then the styling I gave you. Copy and paste from an example does not guarantee anything except that is works on the page where you found it.

Basically bootstrap has turned what would be a 10 minute fix in ordinary code into a major operation.

Take a look at my dropdown menu page and see if it helps seeing how to do it without all the bloated bootstrap junk in the way.

Cd&

Sorry, doesn't help me. I'm just not understanding it. I tried what you said to do, and it didn't work, so I'm not sure where to go from here.

I'm not sure where to either Mel.  I suspect that somewhere buried in the bloated bottscrap mess there is something that is either overriding or preventing the normal cascade.  The DOM has probably been damaged by the BS jquery, though it could be that one of the others is creating some kind of conflict.

The best approach at this point is probably to go through the jquery code and see if you can find the function that is breaking it.  Hopefully when you find it, you will be able to fix it without breaking something else.

Cd&

Thanks, that almost works!! I'll work on the one item that's too high, but we're close, thanks!

Thanks! That works great!