Categories Dressing

[gjh42]

I'm not going to get into that subject here, beyond noting that the top row of icons linking to external domains could easily be done using the ez-pages navbar with external links. Check the tutorials for ez-pages, and post in an appropriate subforum or thread for help if you need it.

"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 ?"

Your original question can actually be solved with Categories Dressing.
Use the categories-tabs bar in the header, and set the "active category" define in categories_dressing_defines.php to hide top categories. Then only subcats (of the currently selected top cat) will show in the categories sidebox. See the readme for more info.

[notwist]

Hallo, I have a question. Is it possible to have open categories on start? I need open second level of categories only. Thank you for reply.

[limelites]

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.

Glen, I think you already solved this..... simply changing all references of #categories to #chcategories in your generic stylesheet and now your mod and the UCT mod are working in perfect harmony on my site.

I can apply your categories_dressing_defines.php and everything works as it's supposed to. Similarly, every rule in your generic stylesheet does affect my categories formatting just exactly as you'd designed.

Again then, anyone wishing to apply categories dressing to UCT, simply change all references of #categories to #chcategories in your stylesheet_categories_dressing.css and voila, perfect harmony.

The only thing I can't solve is which part of the code is generating these three bullets on limelites.co.uk and which part of the code I can use to insert a position:relative; to align these three heading further to the left:



Please, help :-)

[limelites]

Hallo, I have a question. Is it possible to have open categories on start? I need open second level of categories only. Thank you for reply.

Take a look at my site, limelites.co.uk.............. Is this the sort of category expansion you require?

[limelites]

Hallo, I have a question. Is it possible to have open categories on start? I need open second level of categories only. Thank you for reply.

To get the expanded categories then you need to install the ch-category-20070610 expanded categories mod available in the downloads section. Beware though, if you install this mod then it can be tricky at first to make it work with the categories dressing mod (see the last ten or so posts in this thread)

If you require only opened to 2nd level subcategory then look at my solution found here.

[gjh42]

There is some mismatch in the two mods, because Categories Dressing detects category/subcategory level and adds <ul> tags as required; the top categories on your site are not getting the <ul> tags. Something about the information passed into tpl_categories.php is not meshing correctly.

[limelites]

There is some mismatch in the two mods, because Categories Dressing detects category/subcategory level and adds <ul> tags as required; the top categories on your site are not getting the <ul> tags. Something about the information passed into tpl_categories.php is not meshing correctly.

Glen, could it be something as simple as this:

I changed all #categories to #chcategories and BINGO, 99% working.... what would I change .catBoxHeading1 and .catBoxHeading2 etc., to??

[gjh42]

Those don't depend on the sidebox id at all. Theoretically, if someone used .catBoxHeading1 for some other page element, it would conflict... but I don't think that is likely enough to matter :)

The styling class/id tags are not directly connected with the creation of the HTML <ul> element tags.

[notwist]

To get the expanded categories then you need to install the ch-category-20070610 expanded categories mod available in the downloads section. Beware though, if you install this mod then it can be tricky at first to make it work with the categories dressing mod (see the last ten or so posts in this thread)

If you require only opened to 2nd level subcategory then look at my solution found here.

Thank you for reply. I would like to test your solution but I can't see this code on tpl_categories.php file. Where I find this code?

[limelites]

I realised that after asking the question, sorry.

What I don't understand is how your generic stylesheet is manipulating these top level categories when they're active categories. When I select for example, womenswear>tops, the top level, 'womenswear' goes bold and I can make the font size change or I can change alignment etc... this is from using:

#chcategories li a.cat-selected-text {
    list-style: square inside url(../images/bullet3.gif);/*change to list-style: none; to remove bullet*/
    font-weight:bold; 

If it's not getting the <ul> tags then how is #chcategories li a.cat-selected-text affecting it and is there perhaps a new tag I can ad for example #chcategories li a.cat-NOTselected-text?

Sorry, I'm an amateur and I do struggle with the basics at times :-)