Problem with left column width

[gjh42]

It looks like you may have located the problem, though the fix would be a bit different.

The stock tpl_main_page.php has no tags at all on the center column <td>:

    <td valign="top">
<!-- bof  breadcrumb -->
<?php if (DEFINE_BREADCRUMB_STATUS == '1' || (DEFINE_...

100&#37; there is wrong, but there should be no need to specify the width at all.
Apparently there is an added table (not stock) just inside the center <td>, which is properly set at 100% width (though it would be better coding to follow modern practices and use a div with an id styled in the stylesheet).

[RuFuS]

Hi Glenn,

I totally agree, learning css is the way to go. My suggestion was just a quick fix rather then the way it should be done.

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Thanks a lot guys, changing the size of the cell from a percentage to 652 did the trick. This forum is another reason why I love zen-cart. The fast and accurate help.

Thanks to both RuFuS and gjh42.

Have a great day.

P.S. I will learn CSS... any good book out there you recommend?

Again, thanks!

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Oh, one more thing, since you guys seem to be very familiar with zen-cart, I need to make the "By Location? and "By Categories" centered within the left box, I can't seem to do that without making all the sub cats centered as well.

Any ideas. As you're aware by now, I'm no expert when it comes to CSS.

Thanks.

[gjh42]

Since the links are not block-level elements, the properties that should make them center don't apply. It is possible to fix that nicely with this:

A.category-top,  A.category-top:visited {
    display: block; 
    text-align: center; 
    margin-bottom: -12px;
    }

but unfortunately IE doesn't know how to handle the negative margin and intermittently erases a strip of the element below it.
So the best I can suggest without getting into editing the code in tpl_categories.php is this:

A.category-top,  A.category-top:visited {
    margin-right:22px;
    }

which puts them both quite near the center.

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Again, you're the best. The client loves the site and we're launching tonight.

Even though it's not necessarily centered, it is quite close to what they had in mind.

Again, thanks a million.