href not working on dropdown-toggle - bootstrap

Question

I fail to understand why href is not working on a tag for data-toggle="dropdown" . When I hit the Lists tab, i should be routed to the google website.

FIDDLE HERE

Simple HTML:

<div class="btn-group">
   <a href="http://google.com" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Lists</a>

    <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
        <li>
            <a href="#">Sub List 1</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="#">Sub List 2</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

Answer 1

From Bootstrap documentation (http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#dropdowns):

To keep URLs intact with link buttons, use the data-target attribute instead of href="#".

So your code should be

 <a data-target="http://www.google.es"  target="_blank" href="http://www.google.es" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle">Lists</a>

<ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
    <li>
        <a href="#">Sub List 1</a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="#">Sub List 2</a>
    </li>
</ul>

Futhermore, you can find more information about how to get menu dropdown using hover instead of click: How to make twitter bootstrap menu dropdown on hover rather than click

Answer 2

A simple jQuery solution:

$('#menu-main > li > .dropdown-toggle').click(function () {
    window.location = $(this).attr('href');
});

But the better solution is to replace the data-toggle attribute with data-hover

So your final code will be:

<div class="btn-group">
   <a href="http://google.com" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" data-hover="dropdown">Lists</a>

    <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
        <li>
            <a href="#">Sub List 1</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="#">Sub List 2</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>