Category description character limit

[moesoap]

Hi,

Can anyone suggest how to increase the characters allowed in the category product description?

I have a lot of html that I need to include which are part of a jquery tabbed box, however when I put the entire code into the category description it cuts half of it out.

I have tried to include it in a separate php file and used the following in the category description box

<?php include('my-descriptiontabs.php'); ?>

where only my custom html is in the 'my-descriptiontabs.php' but it doesnt work for reasons unknown to me, and I dont want to have to use an iframe for obvious seo reasons.

[DrByte]

If it's the same on all categories, then why don't you put it into your template, since that's where non-category-specific HTML belongs.

[moesoap]

Its not the same in each category as I am looking to list all my product prices with add to cart for each category in this tabbed box to avoid the product info display pages.

[DrByte]

You do realize that hard-coding that product-info completely removes all kinds of flexibility from both you and your shoppers, right?
You'll no longer be able to easily put products on sale, turn on specials, allow customers to sort on price or name or something else, view related products, etc etc etc.

[moesoap]

You do realize that hard-coding that product-info completely removes all kinds of flexibility from both you and your shoppers, right?
You'll no longer be able to easily put products on sale, turn on specials, allow customers to sort on price or name or something else, view related products, etc etc etc.

I know and its a real pain hard coding this, however for the life of me I can never get the product info display page to sit how I want it, and also with the site being an online printers, I have had to separate 1-sided printing and 2-sided printing into separate sub-categories because of the non-support for dependent attributes.

This has put a lot of people off from purchasing as all the prices are not easily viewed from one section...for example if they wanted A3 Posters they would have to click on sub-category A3 Posters Printed 1-side for paper types, quantities and prices, then click on the other sub-category for the Printed 2-sided paper types, quantities and prices. And are not able to compare prices with the ease that this tabbed box will give.

[moesoap]

You do realize that hard-coding that product-info completely removes all kinds of flexibility from both you and your shoppers, right?
You'll no longer be able to easily put products on sale, turn on specials, allow customers to sort on price or name or something else, view related products, etc etc etc.

Can you help?

[moesoap]

If I make extra html define pages in place of my categories and use the tabbed box and bypass not only the product info display but categories also, would I have any other problems (e.g. Sessions), apart from those flexibility problems mentioned by dr byte?

I understand that flexibility with easy to add specials etc is inconvenient, but these changes would be more practical for my customers.