Thời gian cho hành động - tạo ra một mục trình đơn thứ cấp Hãy bỏ Tin tức Lưu trữ liên kết từ cấp tiểu học trong Menu chính và hiển thị nó như là một liên kết cấp phụ: | Chapter 8 Time for action - create a secondary menu item Let s remove the News Archive link from the primary level in the Main Menu and show it as a sublevel link 1. To edit the Main Menu contents navigate to Menus Main Menu. 2. Click on the title of the item you want to edit News Archive. 3. In the Menu Item Details section the parent item is set to top. Change the parent item to News 4. Click on Save. In the list of menu items in the Menu Item Manager the new sublevel menu item is shown indented 207 Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want Managing Menus 5. Click on Preview to see the output on the frontend. The Main Menu now shows four primary links. When the visitor clicks on News a secondary link News Archive What just happened By assigning a parent item to a menu link you can create a submenu item. Of course submenus aren t the only way to make secondary content visible. In Chapter 7 you ve seen that main links can point to overview pages with links to content from sections or categories. Those secondary home pages can make secondary menu links superfluous. However sometimes it s better to add sublevels in the menu itself. If you have items outside of the section or category structure such as uncategorized pages submenus can clarify the coherence of the site. You can have main parent links and secondary child links. Creating split submenus When you want to use submenus on your site you can also choose an altogether different presentation from what you ve just seen. You re not limited to having submenu items shown within the main menu as it s also possible to place main navigation links horizontally along the top of the page and display second level links in a separate menu for example in a vertical menu in the left-hand side column . This creates a clear visual distinction between the main menu items and their submenu items. At the same time the visitor can see that those two menus are related. The parent item can be displayed as active using a different .
