how would I make the categories expand?

[gjh42]

What is inherently ugly about them? You can change anything you like about the appearance with CSS in the stylesheet. Categories Dressing gives almost infinite flexibility, but only applies to the standard sidebox.

How does the AJAX sidebox look different?

[dimmyr]

It's dynamic, and has nice arrows next to cats.

What is inherently ugly about them? You can change anything you like about the appearance with CSS in the stylesheet. Categories Dressing gives almost infinite flexibility, but only applies to the standard sidebox.

How does the AJAX sidebox look different?

[gjh42]

Dynamic as in only the top cats show, and when you mouse over one it scrolls down to show its subs? That's something that I think you need js for - the CSS flyout menu doesn't scroll down in a column. The arrows can be added to any category box with CSS.

[dimmyr]

The thing is - I am not a programmer, so I use pre-canned stuff. I don't know half the things you just said. All I know is that I need a menu that displays all subcats to begin with and doesn't have all the ugly ASCII pipes and underscores for dir branches.

[gjh42]

Those pipes and underscores are editable in admin > Configuration > Layout Settings.

And yes, I think they're ugly too.

Do you want the subcats always showing? Then the Uncollapsed Categories Tree can be styled to look however you want. I can advise if you need help there.

[dimmyr]

Sorry for ignorance, but I can put nicer image-based branches in there using the admin interface, and make sure the long cat names don't wrap to start at the next line without the indent?

[gjh42]

The wrapping is not controllable in the standard admin interface. It could be handled to some degree with CSS - it would depend on exactly what layout you wanted.

It may be possible to use an image for the categories subcategories separator in admin - I haven't tried it, but HTML works there, so it should be ok.

[gloreo]

Thanks

This works only when selected
is there a way to show all subcategories on page load so I don't have to click it to expend

I also want to know how to show all subcategories on page load.

Cars (main cat)
Plugs (sub cat)
Wheels (sub cat)

Engine (main cat)
Oil (sub cat)
Plugs (sub cat)

Is there a category like that?

Thx

[dimmyr]

Same here, how do you make all subcats expanded by default?

[gloreo]

i found something.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67717