subcategories layout problem

[SethB]

I am not even sure how to explain the problem so I think pictures will work better.

On my site http://www.tgtwoffroad.com if you open a category with subcategories it does this





I have changed the max "Categories To List Per Row" and tinkered with category_row.php but I can't seem to figure out what is causing it to arrange things like this.

Can someone help me out?

[Ajeh]

How many across are you trying to display?

It looks like 5 ...

[SethB]

As you see it, it is set to 4 but only shows 3. I would like 3 columns. When I set it to 3 it displays 2 columns. Is there some way to adjust the spacing between the columns?

[SethB]

Ok after looking at it a little more. It seems that it is putting one blank space at the end of each row or something like that.

[gjh42]

There may be some margin that is crowding the scene. If you ask for 3 per row, each is allotted 33%. Any margin could force each one to take say 35% and they wouldn't all fit.
So you could either reduce margins (in your stylesheet) or find the PHP file where widths are assigned.

[cphilips]

I had the same problem. My fix for now is to override the \modules\templates_default\category_row.php file on lines 25 and 27:

if ($num_categories < MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW || MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW == 0) {
$col_width = floor((100/$num_categories)-3); /* Have to subtract ~3 to allow for left & right margins, otherwise coluns don't fit*/
} else {
$col_width = floor((100/MAX_DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_PER_ROW)-3); /* same thing here*/

It's not elegant but it does work to get my site up and running under 1.35.