{"id":37336,"date":"2014-11-19T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=37336"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:29:55","slug":"joomla-3-x-troubleshooter-duplicated-menu-title-while-creating-a-separator-menu-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/joomla-3-x-troubleshooter-duplicated-menu-title-while-creating-a-separator-menu-item.html","title":{"rendered":"Joomla 3.x Troubleshooter. Duplicated menu title while creating a separator menu item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p>This tutorial will show you how to solve the duplicated menu title issue while creating a Text Separator menu item.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nLpq5qwCNrs?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">Joomla 3.x Troubleshooter. Duplicated menu title while creating a separator menu item<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>The issue may happen when you need to create a non-clickable menu item (text separator).<\/p>\r\n<p> Log into your Joomla admin panel. Go to <strong>Menus<\/strong>, then open a menu you need. Click <strong>Add New<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p> Select <strong>Text Separator<\/strong> menu item type. <\/p>\r\n<p> Then, check your website. You see that your menu Text is duplicated:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_1-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"Joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_1-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_1-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_1-1024x491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_1.jpg 1270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p> To fix this issue, go to your Filemanager and open <strong>\/modules\/mod_superfish_menu\/tmpl\/default_separator.php<\/strong> file.<\/p>\r\n<p> Here you will see line 23. Replace this line:<\/p>\r\n<pre class=\"brush:php\">&lt;span class=&quot;separator&quot;&gt;&lt;?php echo html_entity_decode($item-&gt;title); ?&gt;&lt;?php echo html_entity_decode($linktype); ?&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/pre>\r\n<p>with this line:<\/p>\r\n<pre class=\"brush:php\">&lt;span class=&quot;separator&quot;&lt;?php echo html_entity_decode($item-&gt;title); ?&gt;&gt;&lt;?php echo html_entity_decode($linktype); ?&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/pre>\r\n<p> Save your file then.<\/p>\r\n<p> Also, you can just replace your <strong>default_separator.php<\/strong> file with the already edtied one: <a href=\"\/help\/files\/misc\/default_separator.zip\" download>download<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p> Check your site please. Menu item text is not duplicated now:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_2-300x137.png\" alt=\"joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_2-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_2-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_2-1024x468.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/joomla_duplicated_menu_screen_2.png 1436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Thank you for watching our tutorial. Now you know how to solve the duplicated menu item issue after creating a text separator menu item. <\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nLpq5qwCNrs?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">Joomla 3.x Troubleshooter. 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