Question

My goal is to animate a JQuery menu to respond when hovered or clicked. Using the HoverIntent plugin the following code is working as intended to hover. But how do I add a click event while maintaining a user friendly menu? While planning how to write this I have considered adding a delay to the hover event when a menu item is clicked, however I am unsure how practical that implementation would be. How would I add the click event to the following code?

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {

function show() {
 var menu = $(this);
 menu.children(".options").slideDown();
}

function hide() { 
 var menu = $(this);
 menu.children(".options").slideUp();
}

$(".menuHeader").hoverIntent({
 sensitivity: 3, 
 interval: 50,   
 over: show,     
 timeout: 300,  
 out: hide       
  });

});

<div id="SideMenu">
  <div id="aMenu" class="menuHeader">
   <h2>Menu A</h2>
    <ul class="options" >
      <li><a href="">Option a1</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Option a2</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Option a3</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div id="bMenu" class="menuHeader">
   <h2>Menu B</h2>
    <ul class="options" >
      <li><a href="">Option b1</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Option b2</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Option b3</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div id="cMenu" class="menuHeader">
    <h2>Menu C</h2>
     <ul class="options" >
      <li><a href="">Option c1</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Option c2</a></li>
      <li><a href="">Option c3</a></li>
     </ul> 
  </div>
</div>

Sorry about the formatting of the code, and thank you for your help.

Answer 1

I never used hoverIntent, there’s anyway to unbind it?

If there’s you can do something like this:

$(",menuHeader").bind("click.show_menu", function() {
  show();
  //unbind over from hoverIntent
})

function hide() { 
  var menu = $(this);
  menu.children(".options").slideUp(function() {
    //rebind over from hoverIntent on callback from slideUp
  });
}

So you clicked a link, it will stack until you mouseout, and then when you hover it again or click on it it will stack again.

Edit:
You also need to unbind click on over function from the hoverIntent or it will cause a weird effect when you click the link.