Dropdown

The dropdown is commonly used within the Navbar to form submenus.

Word-wrapping

One common problem here is that the sub-menu items with longer titles push the menu width too far.

Typically you can select the Dropdown Link element directly, and manually set the Breaking behavior to _Normal under More type options. Even if it indicates default, it's likely inheriting from the parent, and therefore showing a no-break behavior.

If that does not work, here's an old-school technique involving custom CSS that adjusts whitespace handling within these elements.

You'll need to target it correctly to the elements you wish to impact;

<style>
  .dropdown-link {
    display: block;
    overflow: visible;
    white-space: normal;
    margin-right: 0px;
    padding-right: 0px;
  }
</style>

Dropdown Menu Gap Problems

Is your dropdown menu closing when you try to click it? Here's why, and how to fix this layout issue.

Auto-Opening Dropdowns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvLqXnSjoSA&t=3s&ab_channel=FrancescoCastronuovo

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https://github.com/francesco-castronuovo/opened-dropdown/blob/main/main.js

Programming

To programmatically open or close the dropdown, the click event won't work. Use mousedown and then mouseup instead, on the toggle;

// Make sure to target your desired element specifically
const dropdownToggle = dropdown.querySelector('.w-dropdown-toggle');
dropdownToggle.dispatchEvent(new Event('mousedown'));
dropdownToggle.dispatchEvent(new Event('mouseup'));

https://discourse.webflow.com/t/how-to-get-dropdown-open-on-page-load-automatically/158399/14

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