# Active Nav Items

**URL:** <https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/active-nav-items/9760>\
**Category:** Bootstrap Studio Help\
**Created:** [December 27, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/active-nav-items/9760 "2022-12-27T20:11:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![printninja](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/user_avatar/forum.bootstrapstudio.io/printninja/32/481_2.png) [@printninja](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/printninja)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/active-nav-items/9760/6 "2022-12-28T12:34:56Z")

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I recently posted a question about this EXACT thing because I was trying to understand why BSS provides a link in the dropdown, when adding a URL does nothing.

> [@Nav "active" status](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/nav-active-status/8121/16):
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> As I was playing around with the Navbar and the Dropdown tonight, something occurred to me… When you add a Dropdown to the Navbar, if you go to the Options panel, and select the Link in the Dropdown, you are presented with the standard Nav Item Link Options, which allows you to enter a URL. Of course, if you do enter a URL, clicking the Dropdown Link doesn’t take you to that URL, it opens the Dropdown menu - which is the expected behavior. So I started thinking, “why does the Dropdo…

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