I think you’re asking how to make a menu with drop downs clickable rather than hoverable, so here’s a very simple example of what I think you want: http://jsfiddle.net/pk5Bx/
HTML
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="current_page_parent"><a href="#">Top level 1</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Submenu 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Submenu 2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="current_page_parent"><a href="#">Top level 2</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Submenu 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Submenu 2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Javascript/jQuery
$(function() {
$("#navigation .current_page_parent").click(function(){
$(this).children('ul').toggle();
})
});
CSS
#navigation ul li {
display: inline-block;
}
#navigation ul ul {
display: none;
}
EDIT
Using similar HTML that wp_list_pages()
outputs.