SCSS Dropdown Navigation

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

Proud to learn how to implement the dropdown functionality for desktop and mobile

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

When implementing a dropdown menu for desktop, I faced issues with the hover state not working as expected.

Specifically, the dropdown menu would close as soon as the mouse left the button that opens the dropdown, preventing interaction with the menu items.

To resolve this, I created a function startCollapseTimeout that manages the dropdown menu's visibility based on mouse events.

Here’s how it works:

Mouseenter Event:

• When the mouse enters the button or menu, it clears any existing timeout to keep the menu open.

Mouseleave Event:

• When the mouse leaves the button or menu, it starts a timeout to collapse the menu after a short delay.

• This allows the user to move the mouse from the button to the menu without it closing.

The key part of the solution was to check if the relatedTarget (the element that the mouse is moving to) was either inside the menu (in case of mouseenter) or outside the menu (in case of mouseleave).

This check ensures that the menu only collapses when the mouse is completely outside both the button and the menu, thereby allowing the user to interact with the dropdown menu.

Thus, using relatedTarget helped manage the dropdown menu's behavior by ensuring that the menu only hides when the mouse is not moving between related elements (button and menu), providing a smoother and more intuitive user experience.

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

At the moment, none.