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[Bug]: fickle navigation with large submenus

Open gojohnnygo opened this issue 1 month ago • 1 comments

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Impacted component(s)

sp-menu, sp-menu-item

Library version

@spectrum-web-components/1.7.0

Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

When working with large submenus, users have to perfectly mouse laterally on x-axis to the submenu and then they can mouse over the submenu items on the y-axis.

Users cannot go directly from the submenu trigger to the first submenu menu item (like along the hypotenuse of a triangle).

Here are two different options in solving this problem w/ sub-menus:

  1. Introduce a delay (better)
  2. Use triangulation (best)

https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown

Screenshots

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What browsers are you seeing the problem in?

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How can we reproduce this issue?

  1. Go to '...'
  2. Click on '....'
  3. Scroll to '....'
  4. Check console
  5. See error

Sample code or abstract reproduction which illustrates the problem

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Severity

None

Logs taken while reproducing problem

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Would you like to track this issue in Jira?

  • [ ] Yes, please tell me the ticket number!

gojohnnygo avatar Nov 20 '25 23:11 gojohnnygo

Hi! This issue is currently in progress. #5601

najikahalsema avatar Nov 21 '25 17:11 najikahalsema