When Dropdowns Gang Up on You

Oh boy, if you thought politics was frustrating, try being a web developer when your code decides to stage a coup. Picture this: you’re just trying to make a dropdown menu behave like the three dots on your favorite social media posts, but instead, it turns into a chaotic free-for-all where every dropdown thinks it’s the main event.

So here I was, six hours deep into my “relaxing” Sunday, thinking I could just tweak a little CSS and JavaScript for my project in Geltaverse, and BAM! - every dropdown on the page thinks it’s the one I clicked. "Oh, you clicked me? Let's all open then!" they cheerily declare, like some rogue clique in high school.

I mean, who knew menus could be so clingy? It’s like they all got together and decided, "If one of us is going down, we're all going down together!"

But then, like a bolt from the blue, or more accurately, after about my 37th cup of coffee, the solution dawned on me.

Oct 26, 2024 | 11:18:

I finally figured it out. You see, all I had to do was tell each dropdown to mind its own business with event.stopPropagation(). That’s right, I had to add this little piece of code to make sure when you click one, it doesn’t scream at the others to join in. And just like that, peace was restored to the land of Geltaverse.

So, if you ever find yourself in a similar dropdown dilemma, remember: not all heroes wear capes; some just write decent JavaScript. Here’s to hoping your dropdowns play nice, or at least, when they don’t, you find your solution quicker than I did mine.

Ah, I need a cigarette!