Due to the nature of the placeholder, in certain templates, it is not styled resulting in some distasteful layout. The normal workaround is to use the link-url menu item to #. However, I post in Sporticus concluded with a better solution which I am going to demonstrate here.

Joomla 1.0x

1. Login into your Administrator
2. Go to Menu > mainmenu > New
3. Choose link-url as your Menu item
4. In the URL field, insert
5. Fill in your other details and save.

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Joomla 1.5
1. Login into your Administrator
2. Go to Menus > Main Menu > New
3. Choose "External Link" as your Menu item
4. In the link field, insert
5. Fill in your other details and save.

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Thanks to Brian D

See updated post.

I have a very very large menu structure and found that when I remove the "href=" from this code:

case 3:
         // don't link it
         $txt = '<a href=\"#\" '.$active.' '. $id .$title.'><span>'. $txt .'</span></a>';
         break;

Found in the ja_cssmenu.php that my placeholder errors are solved, without having to use another method like the - link URL and javascript:void(0);    method.... does anyone know if removing this "href=" will cause any other unexpected problem?
 

Good,

I edited PHP to add <a href="#">..

I was using the old # and it kept going back to the home page if clicked, This is a perfect solution.

Thank You
Mark

This is just great! Thanks!

Perfect!

Thank you so much! James' solution with Steve Overton's suggestion works great for me.