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We have an issue that is on another thread, but that thread is not totally related to this problem.

On a dropdown menu, on certain devices their 'standards' are not to identify dropdowns, and if they have a HREF tag assigned, the dropdowns work, but goes straight away to the page of the link.

Apple devices do not to it. And on Desktop, they operate via hover. It seems to mostly do this on Android. We are told their standards don't take note of the hover part.

So a plan B would be of the @media width was 768 or below, showing a mobile menu, to disable the HREF on the first tap/click, but enable it on the second.

Is this possible to do??

The only issue might be, where some of the links in the menu are not dropdowns.

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I'd avoid putting a link there entirely. Conceptually it's annoying: clicking the "Support" should get me a menu*, but clicking "Support" should also go to the support page? You have the contact link in the submenu anyways.

But to answer the question, yes. Attach a click event handler using your Javascript framework and do a event.preventDefault() if the menu is closed.

* Yes, you said it works on hover, but that's an increasingly less used behavior as it doesn't match up with more common (ie, desktop) interfaces.

So what is the answer??
You have a menu along the top, with them all working on hover (like most sites nowadays). But on a Desktop you click the link for say "Support" and it goes to the contact page. But on an Android device, you tap it to expand the menu and it goes to the Contact page.

That's the annoying bit. And that is what I am trying to overcome, without recoding the whole flipping thing.

Surely there is a fix for this android issue where it ignores the hover. iPad and iPhone don't ignore it. you tap on the top level and it expands, tap it again and it goes to the page.

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http://brianshim.com/webtricks/drop-dow ... d-android/
This is the exact issue.

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But we need the text in that top menu to be links too. It really works for us and seen that on so many websites.
And on iOS and others, it's fine. Just that on Android it's a pain as it ignores what others seem to do correctly.
We cannot move those top links.

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And I've seen other websites that don't do that. But whatever, then don't remove them.

So are you saying there is no JS that will be able to ignore the first HREF click on a specific link, but enable it after?

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No, I'm telling you (for the second time) to read my first post.

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Yes, that is what I'm referring to.

You using any Javascript framework? You know how to use it to get events, like onclick or onchange?

Vaguely with onclick and onchange. Really vague.
I'm using a bit of Javascript.

That event I looked at, disables the link on the first click, but I want it to enable the dropdown on a mobile device. Concerned that it might disable everything on the first click.

http://www.regatta.com/
This site does what I want. And I don't believe they have two menus (desktop and mobile). Just one. Top levels link.

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Actually what they're doing is using a block-level element to cover up the link. I forgot to check but it didn't seem possible to click the "link" when the menu was open, so it's not quite the same thing as what you're trying to do.

You're using Javascript to show the menu, right? What does that look like?

I've PMd you. Reasons will be apparent.

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