Categories Dressing

[kaddie]

Now, that's what I'm talking about! Great! Oh, my gosh! I just cannot believe it. Finally, I have a menu base I can work with.

Thank you to no end.

However, if I decide not to use the flyout. What do I need to change? I may want the 3rd categories to drop down instead. I would like to try them both to see which I would prefer to use.

[gjh42]

Dropdown in a vertical (sidebox) menu is tricky. It is easy to do with CSS, but the effect can be strange and jumpy.
Essentially, you would change the left: and top: property values - experiment.
It takes javascript to have a menu that opens and closes vertically and doesn't jump when you move the mouse. That would be a completely different topic and I would not be able to advise on it.

[kaddie]

Maybe I should have explained myself better as to what I may consider using. If you go to progroom dot com/catalog and take a look at the menu we have now. I believe you may have a better understanding for what I may need.

Thanks for your help.

[gjh42]

I don't see any dropdowns of any kind on that site. Are you talking about the standard "subcats expand vertically, indented, when their parent is clicked"?

[swamyg1]

Is there any way to display the subcategories of one particular category, even though I've set it up to not display all subcategories? I'd like to override this function for one of my categories so the subcats of this category are always displayed.

My box is setup like this:
define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '3|0|0');

As it is, my categories only display subcats if the parent category is clicked.

[gjh42]

You would need to modify the switch in the cat_active_level_manage() function in categories_dressing_functions.php. Add a new case like this:

      case 7://full active tree, others per level; always cat 23
        if($cPath_top != $path_top and $path_top != '23') $test_level = 1;
        break; 

Change 23 to the id of your desired always-expanded category.

Change your define to this:

define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '7|0|0');

[swamyg1]

You would need to modify the switch in the cat_active_level_manage() function in categories_dressing_functions.php. Add a new case like this:

      case 7://full active tree, others per level; always cat 23
        if($cPath_top != $path_top and $path_top != '23') $test_level = 1;
        break; 

Change 23 to the id of your desired always-expanded category.

Change your define to this:

define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '7|0|0');

I put both snippets in but it just displays all of my cats and subcats. I'm looking to only display the subcats for category 84 all the time, and display other subcats for categories when the category is clicked.

Thanks for helping out with this!

[swamyg1]

I put both snippets in but it just displays all of my cats and subcats. I'm looking to only display the subcats for category 84 all the time, and display other subcats for categories when the category is clicked.

Thanks for helping out with this!

Nevermind, I got it to work!! Thanks for helping out with this!

[MamaKitty]

The Uncollapsed Category Tree is exactly what I wanted! Just one little thing I'd like to fix is to remove the word "categories" from the top of the left column. It's quite obvious that the following is a list of categories ;) If there has to be something there, I'd like it to be one of the little grey paw tracks as I've used farther down the column.

I've searched and read and searched and read some more. I know it should be obvious and simple but I'm not getting it. Help?

Dorothy
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[MamaKitty]

Solved the problem :)

I'm using the Images for Titles add-on to place the paw tracks farther down the left column. Added an image named in that mod's style and now have the little grey paw print instead of the word "categories".

I'd ask a mod to remove my post but maybe this will help someone else having similar problems.

Dorothy