Remove arrows showing top-level menu items with children

jmek66
February 23, 2012 at 5:23 am #3536

How can I remove the v-shaped arrow that appears next to menu items that have sub-items? I am using a child theme and would like to remove the arrows from both the Header menu and the Footer Menu.

Dev site: http://66.147.242.85/~litquake/litquake/
Anonymous
February 23, 2012 at 7:20 am #24744
```
#header-menu > li.menu-item-ancestor > a {

background: none;

padding-left: 15px;

}
```
jmek66
February 23, 2012 at 7:40 am #24745

Thanks, that worked! I did, however, need to adjust the padding-left; didn’t need 15px without an icon in the area.

Anonymous
February 23, 2012 at 9:25 am #24746

The default padding was around 25px. So, I thought that it would help you if I decrease the padding by 10px. 🙂

jmek66
February 23, 2012 at 10:04 am #24747

Thanks for thinking ahead by decreasing the padding. Just didn’t decrease it enough to deal with my many menus. But thanks for being proactive.

pb1013
March 5, 2012 at 11:45 am #24748

Hi guys, i have just joined this forum after starting to use this theme.

Im stuck with the issue of arrows showing up on my nav bar.

I have pasted the code above into the css file but nothing changed.

Could I be doing it incorrectly some how? have I missed a step?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Peter

Anonymous
March 5, 2012 at 5:03 pm #24749

@pb1013 Clear your browser cache by pressing Ctrl+F5. Then see again. Drop down arrow is not there in your site.

pb1013
March 6, 2012 at 9:50 am #24750

Rookie mistake, sorry about that.

I have a new area of concern that has me ripping what little hair I have left, out.

When I click on one of the navigation’s sub menus, a banner displays things like;”Category Archive: Corporate”

Any hints on how i can fix this?

What have i done wrongly when setting up my menus?

Peter

Mod

Kenneth John Odle
March 6, 2012 at 11:36 pm #24751

That’s a category archive. You can’t really fix it because it’s not really broken.

There is a way around this, but it’s a two-step process.

1) Create pages for these categories, and then use Kalin’s Post List plugin to add all the pages in that category. Here’s a tutorial on that plugin:

http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/10/30/kalins-post-list-a-brief-tutorial/

2) Use a custom menu in your menu bar, instead of the default that shows up. Here’s a tutorial:

http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/08/25/how-to-create-and-use-custom-menus-in-wordpress/

Then, instead of using categories in your custom menu, use the pages you created in step #1.

I’m gradually switching all my archives over to this method.
Anonymous
March 7, 2012 at 5:05 am #24752
When I click on one of the navigation’s sub menus, a banner displays things like;”Category Archive: Corporate”

Any hints on how i can fix this?
```
.page-title {

display: none;

}
```