You can put particles or modules into a Gantry 5 menu (as you could in Gantry 4). So to have full control over the dropdown you could just do all that in a customhtml module/particle. But in Gantry 5 menu editor you can create columns. Also, in Joomla menu manager you can group menu items.
Regards, Mark.
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