Question

I want to make a submenu with jQuery and javascript.
I have this html structure:

<nav class="container">
    <ul>
        <li><a href="#" title="Werken in de zorg">Werken in de zorg</a>
            <ul class="submenu">
                <li><a class="label" href="#" title="Lees meer over Werkvelden">Werkvelden</a></li>
                <li><a href="#" title="Lees meer over Eerstelijnzorg">Eerstelijnzorg</a></li>
                <li><a href="#" title="Lees meer over Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg">Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg</a></li>
                <li><a href="#" title="Lees meer over Gehandicaptenzorg">Gehandicaptenzorg</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#" title="Vacatures">Vacatures</a></li>
        <li><a href="#" title="Opleidingen en scholen">Opleidingen en scholen</a></li>
    </ul>
</nav>

In the CSS is set the .submenu to display none. But now the javascript. I would like. If you have a hovert li item. Then the submenu appear. And when you go from the submenu. Then that still remain 300ms. But how should I do with jQuery?

Thank you very much for your help!

Answer 1

You can give this a try:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('nav.container').children('ul').children('li').hover(function() {
        if ($(this).find('.submenu').length > 0) {
            $(this).find('.submenu').slideToggle();
        }
    }, function() {
        $(this).find('.submenu').delay(300).slideToggle();
    });
});

Here’s a fiddle to show it working.