open and close submenus on click Jquery

Question

I have a main menu that will display the submenus with a click event in jquery (client wanted to be click instead hover) so I got it working however I still can't figure out one thing: I have the menu and submenus working properly so when I click on "news" the submenu slides down nicely and when I click back on "news" it closes back, however if after openening news' submenu and I click on "resources" the respective submenu appears but news' submenu stays open, I want the previous submenu to close when clicking on another menu item or outside the main menu area any ideas? here's what I got: ```

Accepted Answer

Try something like this

```
$(function() {
    $('#MainMenu > li').click(function(e) { // limit click to children of mainmenue
        var $el = $('ul',this); // element to toggle
        $('#MainMenu > li > ul').not($el).slideUp(); // slide up other elements
        $el.stop(true, true).slideToggle(400); // toggle element
        return false;
    });
    $('#MainMenu > li > ul > li').click(function(e) {
        e.stopPropagation();  // stop events from bubbling from sub menu clicks
    });
});​
```

http://jsfiddle.net/Ssu32/

open and close submenus on click Jquery

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