A Beautiful Way To Collapse And Style The Divi Mobile Menu
One of the most common requests from our popular Divi Mobile Menu Styling Tutorial is the ability to collapse the submenu items. So today I am showing you what I believe is the best and easiest way to do this. I’ll also add some great looking toggle icons and show you how to style those as well. This tutorial is best used along with some of our other Divi Menu Tutorials to get a well rounded beautiful Divi mobile menu.
Add Some JQuery To Collapse The Divi Mobile Menu Submenus
The idea here is to change the Divi mobile menu from a boring, expanded list to a beautiful compact list. We can do this by adding some jQuery and CSS code. This will not only collapse the mobile Divi menu submenu, but also will add some nice toggles that can be used to indicate to the user that there are more items to show and where to click. This tutorial comes in two parts, one for each type of code. Both of them work together and both are needed to make it work.
If you are using our free Divi child theme, place this snippet into the scripts.js file and remove the <script> tags at the beginning and end. Otherwise, place this in your Divi>Theme Options>Integrations tab in the "Add code to the < head > of your blog" code area.
<script >
jQuery(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$("body ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children, body ul.et_mobile_menu li.page_item_has_children").append('<a href="#" class="mobile-toggle"></a>');
$('ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children .mobile-toggle, ul.et_mobile_menu li.page_item_has_children .mobile-toggle').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$(this).parent('li').toggleClass('dt-open');
$(this).parent('li').find('ul.children').first().toggleClass('visible');
$(this).parent('li').find('ul.sub-menu').first().toggleClass('visible');
});
iconFINAL = 'P';
$('body ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children, body ul.et_mobile_menu li.page_item_has_children').attr('data-icon', iconFINAL);
$('.mobile-toggle').on('mouseover', function() {
$(this).parent().addClass('is-hover');
}).on('mouseout', function() {
$(this).parent().removeClass('is-hover');
})
});
});
</script>Add Some CSS To Collapse The Divi Mobile Menu Submenus
The next step is to add the corresponding CSS code. This code works alongside the Jquery and together they create the Divi mobile menu collapsed effect.
If you are using our free Divi child theme, place this snippet into the style.css file. Otherwise, place this in your Divi>Theme Options>Custom CSS code box. If you need help, check out our complete guide on Where To Add Custom Code In Divi.
/*change hamburger icon to x when mobile menu is open*/
#et_mobile_nav_menu .mobile_nav.opened .mobile_menu_bar::before,
.et_pb_module.et_pb_menu .et_mobile_nav_menu .mobile_nav.opened .mobile_menu_bar::before {
content: '4d';
}
/*adjust the new toggle element which is added via jQuery*/
ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children .mobile-toggle,
ul.et_mobile_menu li.page_item_has_children .mobile-toggle,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children .mobile-toggle,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu li.page_item_has_children .mobile-toggle {
width: 44px;
height: 100%;
padding: 0px !important;
max-height: 44px;
border: none;
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0px;
z-index: 999;
background-color: transparent;
}
/*some code to keep everyting positioned properly*/
ul.et_mobile_menu>li.menu-item-has-children,
ul.et_mobile_menu>li.page_item_has_children,
ul.et_mobile_menu>li.menu-item-has-children .sub-menu li.menu-item-has-children,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu>li.menu-item-has-children,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu>li.page_item_has_children,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu>li.menu-item-has-children .sub-menu li.menu-item-has-children {
position: relative;
}
/*remove default background color from menu items that have children*/
.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children>a,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l .et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children>a {
background-color: transparent;
}
/*hide the submenu by default*/
ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu,
#main-header ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu,
.et-db #main-header ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu {
display: none !important;
visibility: hidden !important;
}
/*show the submenu when toggled open*/
ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu.visible,
#main-header ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu.visible,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu.visible,
.et-db #main-header ul.et_mobile_menu .menu-item-has-children .sub-menu.visible {
display: block !important;
visibility: visible !important;
}
/*adjust the toggle icon position and transparency*/
ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children .mobile-toggle,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children .mobile-toggle {
text-align: center;
opacity: 1;
}
/*submenu toggle icon when closed*/
ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children .mobile-toggle::after,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children .mobile-toggle::after {
top: 10px;
position: relative;
font-family: "ETModules";
content: '33';
color: #00d263;
background: #f0f3f6;
border-radius: 50%;
padding: 3px;
}
/*submenu toggle icon when open*/
ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children.dt-open>.mobile-toggle::after,
.et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children.dt-open>.mobile-toggle::after {
content: '32';
}
/*add point on top of the menu submenu dropdown*/
.et_pb_menu_0.et_pb_menu .et_mobile_menu:after {
position: absolute;
right: 5%;
margin-left: -20px;
top: -14px;
width: 0;
height: 0;
content: '';
border-left: 20px solid transparent;
border-right: 20px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 20px solid #ffffff;
}
/*adjust the position of the hamburger menu*/
.mobile_menu_bar {
position: relative;
display: block;
bottom: 10px;
line-height: 0;
}
/*force the background color and add a rounded border*/
.et_pb_menu_0.et_pb_menu .et_mobile_menu,
.et_pb_menu_0.et_pb_menu .et_mobile_menu ul {
background-color: #ffffff!important;
border-radius: 10px;
}As you can see, each of the snippets are labeled. This does a good job of explaining what each one does. As always, feel free to customize anything like colors and sizes.
Related Tutorials To Help With The Divi Mobile Menu
In our video and tutorial, we are using some code to help the mobile menu look better. This all comes from our Divi Menu tutorial series! I recommend checking out those other tutorials for lots of helpful and fun stuff!
Hi Nelson,
Do have an idea of how to use this snippet on the vertical desktop menu like here?
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/divi-resources/how-to-create-a-vertical-navigation-menu-or-header-for-your-divi-website
Hi Mike, I’m not sure it would matter since my tutorial is for mobile, so whether it is horizontal or vertical on desktop would not affect it.
Hi Nelson, thank you for the snippet!
I have a small problem, i see 2 arrows instead of one. how is this possible ?
Thanks!
It sounds like Divi is just stripping out the forward slash \ in the code before the icon number.
Hello friend, I have a lot of tutorials.
I have a large menu on my website and when I want to see the names of the menu that are below, I can’t keep going down. Do you know how to solve that? Thank you very much
Hmm, I don’t understand, but you can share a link but I don’t know if I’ll be able to help or not.
http://cirfaa.org.ar/
When I scroll the menu and the menu is longer than the screen I can’t keep going down and see the menu that follows. It is difficult to explain, but if you open this site with your cell phone and open all the + you will see that once the menu occupies more space than the size of the screen you cannot continue to see the ones below.
Thanks for answering!!
It’s because your header is sticky 🙂
Great Tutorial… you’re the first one with this kind of tutorial where the collapsible mobile menu is working too if a mega menu is in use! Well done Nelson… really well done. Thanks for this
Nice! I looked at all of them before posting and kind of took the best of all of them and made this, so glad to hear it is working for mega menus too!
i sort of works but it has so many problems with it, i will just delete it. thanks for tying tough 😉
Hi Robertina,
It all works great, if you have a specific question you are free to ask.
Hi Nelson,
thank you for a great post!
I also have the problem with 2 arrows instead of one. Do you have a solution to the problem?
Thank you!
Hi Pär,
I answered this in the other comment, it sounds like Divi is just stripping out the forward slash \ in the code before the icon number. So just make sure when you paste the code, it remains there or add it back.
Thank you for your reply! I am sorry for being stupid, but I cannot find forward slash \ in the above code either? So I do not really know where to start?
Add forward slash before the number: Example: content: ‘\33’;
Hello Par, you need to update this line
/*submenu toggle icon when open*/ ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children.dt-open>.mobile-toggle::after, .et-db #et-boc .et-l ul.et_mobile_menu li.menu-item-has-children.dt-open>.mobile-toggle::after { content: '\32'; }Hi Nelson,
Thank you very much for this. With the forward slash correction, works a treat. However, I note that the dropdowns only show when you click the actual arrows. Clicking the section title just closes down the menu. Setting ‘Disable top tier dropdown menu links’ on theme options should stop that being a link, I thought. I checked your own site and works the same. Click Store and the page just reloads. You have to click the actual arrow to get the dropdown. Any ideas?Salut, Robin
Hi Robin,
That works as expected though. In other words, nothing is wrong with it, but if you want, you can certainly experiment changing it. I want people to be able to click to those pages, but if those parent links are not links, like in the menu, then just don’t set the links…set a # and then when it is added, remove it, and it won’t click.
Nelson, logical thinking, thanks.