Support for CSS Flyout Menu

[Get Em Fast]

Lina, the short answer........no.

The reason being is that your Categories are dynamically created by the categories_ul_generator.php file "on the fly", and are not individually separated into per-category links, but only into <ul>'s and <li>'s.

But..........there's always a way around problems like this.

The suggestion I have would be to create a background image for the WHOLE box containing your flags in the appropriate places.... in order to make sure that they ARE in the appropriate places, take a screen capture of your site. Then in PhotoShop or what ever you use, make your box, placing it on top of your screen capture. This way you know your flags will be in the correct place.

Then edit your 'stylesheet_categories_menu.css to include this background, and make all your links transparent.

And there ya' go..............one multi-flag menu.

Hope this helps.

If you have any problems with it, drop me a pm.

[lina0962]

Lina, the short answer........no.

The reason being is that your Categories are dynamically created by the categories_ul_generator.php file "on the fly", and are not individually separated into per-category links, but only into <ul>'s and <li>'s.

But..........there's always a way around problems like this.

The suggestion I have would be to create a background image for the WHOLE box containing your flags in the appropriate places.... in order to make sure that they ARE in the appropriate places, take a screen capture of your site. Then in PhotoShop or what ever you use, make your box, placing it on top of your screen capture. This way you know your flags will be in the correct place.

Then edit your 'stylesheet_categories_menu.css to include this background, and make all your links transparent.

And there ya' go..............one multi-flag menu.

Hope this helps.

If you have any problems with it, drop me a pm.

Thank you so much for such a quick reply!

Your suggestion sounds....painful. :-) Because other languages (French, Germany, Spanish, etc) are added periotically, it means every time when I have a new language added, I have to redo the whole background image and CSS and ... everything.

Maybe it is impossible for CSS Flyout Menu. How about default categories of zencart (The category is on the RIGHT side of the website. www.best4future.com)? Do you think that one may have some hope?

Again, thank you so much for valueble advice. Happy New Year!

[Get Em Fast]

Lina, as the 'normal' Categories Menu generates the Categories in the same manor, I think you're going to find the same problem with it.

My suggestion would be to use the Categories Dressing Menu. It doesn't have the 'flyout', but I believe you can get the desired image results from it, as it uses Category ID's to style each category.


Now, IF you still wanted to keep and use the Flyout Menu, AND you know for sure what your future changes will be, then you could do as described above, making all your necessary background images that you know you will need. Then, create a separate stylesheet for each different background that you will be using. You could then put them in your css folder with names like French_stylesheet_categories_menu.txt. With them being a txt file, they would not be loaded. Then when you need to chagne, all you would have to do is rename the old on to something like English_stylesheet_categories_menu.txt, and the French one to stylesheet_categories_menu.css.
Just a though...........................

Hope this helps.

[atl2rva]

I am sure this has been answered, but I have yet to be able to find the fix. I simply want to change the font color of the categories. I am able to change the hover color and the color of the header but not the categories itself. I know it is tied to my regular style sheet but I haven't been able to find the correct part. I saw on the first page of this thread to change

a:link, #navEZPagesTOC ul li a {
color: #3300ff;
text-decoration: none;
}

This just changed the color of all my links on the page but did not change the color of my fly out categories font color.

[atl2rva]

disregard previous post. Thought it was in the default style sheet not the one included with the mod. I was mistaken.

[Get Em Fast]

disregard previous post. Thought it was in the default style sheet not the one included with the mod. I was mistaken.

So, you got it worked out?

[atl2rva]

I did thank you. It kinda threw me off because I had used the search feature in notepad++ to look for "ffffff" to find what was making my text white, but did not realize it was only using the short version "fff". Thank You for your response.