How make top level menu item not have link, but have sub-menus that are linked?

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I’m building a horizontal menu and some of the entries on that menu will have dropdowns (sub-menus), and some won’t. Those that have sub-menus are not actually pages. They’re just meant to be guides for the dropdowns.

For instance, say the the horizontal menu is like follows:

Home | About Us | Products | Directions | Contact

And the “products” li item is meant to have 3 pages linked in a vertical dropdown list below it, so “products” itself doesn’t actually represent a page, how can I do that in WP?

(I use WP as a CMS, with static home and inside pages. I build my own templates, style the menus in CSS, then register the menus in the functions.php and call them in the templates.) In WP you add entries to the menus via the list of pages, or by the custom links. But I don’t want “products” to be linked. If I don’t add a link to the custom link it won’t let me add it to the menu.

Is this doable through the menus admin or do I have to approach it some other way?

Thank you for any help!

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I have a few ideas:

  1. Set the custom link to # which won’t return anything
  2. Add a custom class to the items and then use jQuery to remove the links.
  3. Use a PHP equivalent to the jQuery method
  4. Use the Disable Parent Menu Link plugin (or take it apart and write your own)

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