shoppingCart Prefix

Hi, I wanted a shoppingCart Prefix so i tried fooling around with the tpl_shopping_cart.php file from templates/sideboxes.

First thing I did was to add '•' like this, to $content .= '•' . '<li>'; at line 18.

then I did the following styling in my stylesheet.css:

#cartBoxListWrapper ul{margin-left:4px;}
#cartBoxListWrapper ul li{margin-left:20px;margin-top:-25px;width:90%;}

To me this seems like a rather brute way to go about it.. is there an easier way to achieve what I'm trying to do??

Thanks
Soniccc

So you're saying that you hard-coded and jury-rigged a way to make typical list item markers show on a list? How about

#cartBoxListWrapper ul li {display: list-item; list-style: inside;}

along with any properties needed to tweak the display to your liking.

That's what made me feel like an idiot (the hard-coding and jury-rigging) I did that because I got a margin problem with the second line of the cart item title (one I think you already know of) and this also appeared when using display-list. It looks like this:

• 1000st.- *GÜT CNe 50
BOM, 100 M sort fä

By hard-coding I could achieve this:

• 1000st.- *GÜT CNe 50
BOM, 100 M sort fä

Did you mean that

Code:

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By hard-coding I could achieve this:

• 1000st.- *GÜT CNe 50
  BOM, 100 M sort fä

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(as the forum display strips leading spaces.)

Using list-style: outside; and padding-left on the <ul> will move the whole list over so the markers can be "outside" the list and still within the box.

Well that pretty much does it. It seems there's always an easier way (one I don't know of) to do stuff.. where do you learn all this??

Thanks!
Soniccc

Various CSS books, and lots of online resources. www.w3schools.com is a good one for much of it, though they are sometimes out of date, especially with PHP (the preg_ functions are not even mentioned and it still describes the deprecated ereg_ functions).

I'll try those resources so that hopefully I can contribute in a few years!

thanks again!