What Is A Divi Mega Menu?

When a normal Divi menu item has additional menu items underneath it, we call those sub-items a submenu. So think of a mega menu as a set of multiple submenus side by side. We can create a mega menu by setting up our menu in such a way that it has multiple sets of menu item tiers. This is useful when we have a lot of items to put in our menu, or we just want to nest certain pages or sets of pages in a specific way. You can also use a mega menu to advertise products, featured services, or blog posts.

We wrote all about how to style the Divi submenu in a recent tutorial, so go check that out. It will definitely help you understand and style the mega menu!

Set Up The WordPress Menu

Creating mega menu in Divi starts with setting up the WordPress navigation. You can add whatever menu items you want, that’s not important. The important part is that you set it up in the correct order of hierarchy.

Here’s how that looks by default. The parent menu item has four submenu items under it.

Add The Mega Menu CSS Class

This is how the standard menu works, but in order to create a mega menu, we need to add as secret CSS class to the parent item.

NOTE: Be sure you have “CSS Classes” checked under “Screen Options” in the upper right corner of your admin screen.

Here’s how it looks now that we added the “mega-menu” CSS class to the parent menu item:

Add Additional Submenu Items

Next, proceed to add all your submenu items underneath each “column.” You can add as many as you need. In my example, I added three under each column.

Here’s how your Divi mega menu looks! 

How To Style The Divi Mega Menu

Now that we have created our Divi mega menu, we need to customize how it looks. To do this, we need to use CSS since there are no built-in settings for this in Divi. The cool part is that we can base our CSS off of our Divi submenu tutorial since many of the classes are the same.

• Unordered List
• List Item
• Link

This still holds true! The only difference now is that each of the submenu list items now have an unordered list underneath them.

Edit The Overall Mega Menu

This would be exactly like our submenu tutorial, but remember, we added the class “mega-menu” to the list item.

Once you have our CSS selector ready, you can start adding custom code where it says “YOUR CSS HERE.” (be sure to remove that text)

Custom Style Ideas

The following is a list of ideas of some things you might want to do to style overall mega menu submenu. You can choose to do this by placing the snippets shown below into the selector for the mega menu shown above.

Add a border:

Make the corners rounded:

Adjust the spacing:

Edit The Mega Menu Submenu First Row

To do this, we are taking the CSS class for all the menu list items and adding a new special pseudo class called “first-child” which only targets the list items in the top row.

Edit The Mega Menu Submenu First Row On Hover

Once you have our CSS selector ready, you can start adding custom code where it says “YOUR CSS HERE.” (be sure to remove that text)

Custom Style Ideas

The following is a list of ideas of some things you might want to do to style the first row of mega menu submenu list items. You can choose to do this by placing the snippets shown below into the selector for the mega menu shown above.

Add a border:

Change the background size:

Change the text color:

Change the text size:

Adjust the font weight: