Categories Dressing

[gjh42]

Debugging IE problems does not always mean finding errors in the coding, so it may not help to post the source. It will definitely be more possible to diagnose live.

[limelites]

Limelites -
It looks like you have managed to apply Categories Dressing to fragfutter's Uncollapsed Categories Tree. Is that the mod you have? This is very interesting; I will have to study that mod to determine if they can just be packaged together.

The reason that you are having trouble applying some rules is that UCT has a box id of #chcategories, while some rules in stylesheet_categories_dressing.css refer to #categories. Add "ch" to each of those, and they will take effect. You will see a number of odd stylings which you will want to modify to suit your taste.

Hi Glen, thanks for responding and yes, it is indeed Fragfutter's Uncollapsed Categories Mod I'm using. I have managed to apply a 'limited' dressing to UCT using a combination of your mod's stylesheet_categories_dressing.css and the main stylesheet.css. Hence, my use of the word 'limited'.

I'm sure you've been asked a hundred times by UCT users why your stylesheet isn't dressing their UCT menu and so I'm glad that you find my limited success so far, 'interesting'. It would be fantastic if you ever did find time to study the UCT mod and tweak your dressing mod to style UCT and you could then ship them both together. UCT is a very popular contribution, as is your cat dressing mod. It's a shame they don't work in harmony.

If indeed it's just a case of adding 'ch' to all the #categories rules then it should be quite easy to put together an update? I'm going to experiment with this a little myself as there are a few things about my menu that I'd have changed if I didn't have to 'make do'. I'll post back if I have any success.

I notice that Gerjan is also having one of my issues. The white gap between menu items in IE. the gaps between my menu items are excessive in IE whereas FF is acceptable. If you find a solution to yet AIEB then I'd be keen to hear it :-)

[limelites]

Glen, you're dead right!! A simple ctrl+f #categories replace with #chcategories and instantly, your mod and the UCT mod are working in perfect harmony. No need to study it, that's the simple and yet effective answer!!

Thanks a bunch :-) Now I just need to tweak some of the wacky pink backgrounds and enormous fonts I must have implemented back when I was trying to get it to work....

[limelites]

Glen,

I've got your mod integrating perfectly with the UCT mod now, thanks. Just one thing annoying me and I can't seem to find what's causing it.

My top level categories, Menswear, Womenswear and Childrenswear have a rather annoying solid circle bullet point and I can't find what's causing it. I've tried changing all references to list-stlye:none and changing them all to list-style:hebrew just to see what was the culprit, but nothing on the stylesheets seems to be causing these bullets.

Do I perhaps need to add a new rule to the stylesheet in order to code out these bullets?

[gjh42]

I haven't found anything that works yet.
I think the underlying problem is that the Cat Dressing files don't mesh perfectly with the UCT files. There must be some category information that is extra, or missing, or presented differently from standard, in UCT. I am actually surprised that UCT feeds info to tpl_categories.php, as I would think it would use tpl_chcategories.php.

At any rate, the top level categories are tagged as <li> list items, but are not enclosed in <ul> tags. The subcategories have <ul> tags appropriately generated by tpl_categories.php.

So it will require study, but the mere fact that they almost work makes it look like a worthwhile project to prioritize.

[Gerjan]

Debugging IE problems does not always mean finding errors in the coding, so it may not help to post the source. It will definitely be more possible to diagnose live.

Ok, thanks again. When, in the meantime I don't fix it, I'll be back when I'm "live".

Gerjan

[limelites]

Hi Glen,

When I change bullet2.gif to a blank,transparent, single pixel gif and then use this code in the generic stylesheet:

/*change  bullet when a category w/o bg image is open to subs:*/
#chcategories li a.cat-parent-text {
    list-style: square inside url(../images/bullet2.gif);/*change to list-style: none; to remove bullet*/
    position: relative; left: -17px;
    font-size: 13px;
    font-weight: bold;
    } 

.......... it creates the exact effect I need on all top level categories.... However, it's only effecting the 'womenswear' category (cPath1)

How on earth can I apply the same set to cPath3 and cPath16 too? These are also top level categories, but I'm having a real problem with this.

[karimm]

hello everybody,

I'am trying to set-up my website like

http://www.playboystore.com (adult content)

I would like to have a few top-caterory displayed as tabs in the header and the dependig subcateory's on the left navigation, how do i preceed ?

Does Anyone have a idea ?

i have installed

zen 1.3.8.a
grid listing
columdivider pro
category dressing
smart background.

hopped on of those would do the job, but still no success.

Thanks for your reply

[limelites]

Karimm,

I think you may have posted this in the wrong thread. This is a thread specifically for the Category Dressing Mod.

However, you should look at the css_horizontal_drop_down_menu_1-5 which would be helpful for you to achieve the row of menus across the top of the screen like on the
http://www.playboystore.com (adult content). This is a great mod and it comes with stylesheet so you can tweak it how you like.

As for the links in your header, just search, "zen cart links in header" on goole and you'll find loads on that there.

[karimm]

Thanks for your reply,

I know this maybe not the ideal topic for this forum topic.
But there seem to be some design specialist over here.

A good shop to check is the following, notice how they use the top navigation to switch between main stores (domains) !! ( it's dutch)

http://www.pdashop.nl/

every time you switch from shop, the different sub category's are shown with the products. that's just what i want.

Can you point me in the right way ?

Thanks