Accessing drop-down menus on the iPad

[White Dragon]

Hi all,

How do you access drop-down navigation menus for web sites on the iPad?

 

[eBalut]

Hi all,

How do you access drop-down navigation menus for web sites on the iPad?

Uh.... Tap on them

 

[HuggyLowDown]

All you do is just tap on them. You know, the little arrow or something.

 

[joec1101]

That being said, I have run across some web sites where one cannot tap the drop down arrow because it just doesn't appear at all when viewing the site on an IOS device. I have verified this by logging on to the same web site at the same time using both a Mac and a PC and I can see the drop down arrows with those browsers.

I'm not sure what causes this, maybe some of the drop down arrows are designed using Flash (?). Not sure, but I find it frustrating as well.

 

[Darth.Titan]

Probably not flash, just badly written drop down menus. Some web developers are being slow to tweak their sites for maximum compatibility with touch interfaces.

 

[White Dragon]

If tap then I am just taken to that link, if I hold down on the link, then I get the following options:

Open
Open in New Page
Copy

But I don't any of those options. My website can be found here

 

[Night Spring]

If tap then I am just taken to that link, if I hold down on the link, then I get the following options:

Open
Open in New Page
Copy

But I don't any of those options. My website can be found here

You don't need the drop-down menus to access that site, once you tap on the main link in the menu and go to whichever page it takes you, all the links in the drop-down menu are on that page, in the "navigations" column.

 

[White Dragon]

You don't need the drop-down menus to access that site, once you tap on the main link in the menu and go to whichever page it takes you, all the links in the drop-down menu are on that page, in the "navigations" column.

I know, I just added that side bar navigation about an hour ago; because of drop down menus not working.

I still would like to know if there's a way to get the drop down menus working.

 

[Pamr]

Drop-down menu

Uh.... Tap on them

Ease up on the snarky reply, please. Tapping only brings in the main menu.

 

[jaseone]

This should be moved to the web design and development forum.

 

[porcupine8]

If tap then I am just taken to that link, if I hold down on the link, then I get the following options:

Open
Open in New Page
Copy

But I don't any of those options. My website can be found here

On that site, if I tap and hold for a second, but let go just before the browser options pop up, the menu appears. But I'm using atomic, not safari.

 

[Trialnterror]

For some reason safari won't work with this but when I try chrome (iPad) it works just fine ?????

 

[raggdoll]

Ease up on the snarky reply, please. Tapping only brings in the main menu.

Snarky? What are you, 12?

 

[drpkumar]

Hi all,

How do you access drop-down navigation menus for web sites on the iPad?

Please click on the main menu (whose drop-downs you intend dropping) and then click between the two angled brackets < > that appear at the top left corner of your iPad screen. I'm talking about 'safari' browser here. Cheers.

 

[Channan]

Drop-down menus use mouseover, which iOS obviously can't do since it doesn't support mice. I wish Apple could either implement a way to detect if a link is a drop-down menu and tapping it once acts as mouseover, or if they could do something similar to Samsung, sense your finger hovering over the screen, and treat it like mouseover.