Drop Down Menu too long for page and doesn't scroll

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I have a client site with a top level News Page which contains lots of Sub-Pages - each one with a news item. Each news item needs to be on a separate page as they are tweeted & shared as links.

Problem is, the sub-menu list is now too long for most screens. If they click on the top level page they will get a list of items in summary, but many people simply try to scroll through the menu - which isn’t scrollable. Anyone have a smart idea of how to overcome this.

http://gate-safe.org/ news is under the ‘Articles’ tab

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This might not be a great solution for the user but, seeing as that looks to be the only section with a 3rd level of navigation, can the theme simply disable that level of navigation? You’d then force the users to go the the News page to scroll through items there.

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Maybe something like scroll scope inside of a modal would work?
List the links to the pages within scroll scope instead of the menu itself?

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The difficulty is Gate Safe understandably want the list to appear in the sitemap and if I disable the individual pages in navigation, they will not appear in the sitemap. Otherwise this idea works.

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How do you do this with the main menu tho?

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I don’t think you can thats why I said “Instead of the menu itself”.
I can’t think of a way to do it with out either breaking down the list into sub sections (and sub menus) or using the menu to call another page which holds a scrollable list of links which is what I was (not so clearly) suggesting.

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