how would I make the categories expand?

I have heard good reports about fragfutter's Uncollapsed Categories Tree mod. Search the forum for the thread with the link to his site.

Ok, so this is the Expanded Categories List mod. Question is, could it coexist with the Categories Dressing mod?

Limelites and I have just made the discovery that fragfutter's Uncollapsed Categories Tree is completely compatible with Categories Dressing, with one small tweak to the stylesheet (change all #categories selectors to #chcategories). I will be releasing a new version of Cat Dressing which optionally bundles the two mods, or you can download them separately now and make the tweak yourself (it's really very easy).

Hmm, installed both, as soon as I change all instances of #categories to #chcategories, all my pretty default images for bullets get swapped for the regular o's and it's still not uncollapsed.

See images (I uncollapsed the first cat manually in those examples to show the change in bullets.)

Bump? Anybody out there?

Hmm, I thought I had replied to your previous post. Maybe it was late at night and I missed actually posting the reply.
Did you turn on the chcategories sidebox in Tools > Layout Boxes Controller?

I did turn ch_categories on. Now they are both showing up, the "dressed" one and the ch_cat. The ch_cat looks atrocious with its superhuge indents and plain bullets0

gjh42:

Hmm, I thought I had replied to your previous post. Maybe it was late at night and I missed actually posting the reply.
Did you turn on the chcategories sidebox in Tools > Layout Boxes Controller?
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Can you give a link to see what your site is doing? It sounds like the mod stylesheet is not being applied where you want it, but I can't say more without seeing it.

The stylesheet_categories_dressing.css that is active in your template does not have the chcategories modifications, so that is why it is not working.

You need to change all
#categories
to
#chcategories
in that file.

Figured out what my problem was. I initially changed #categories
to #chcategories, but was expecting the changes to be made to the "Categories box", not the "Categories_List" box, which I didn't even have enabled at the time. By the time I had it re-enabled, I had gone back to #categories.

I think you need to make it more clear as to which box needs to be enabled. :)

dimmyr:

I think you need to make it more clear as to which box needs to be enabled. :)
But these are two separate mods..... the fact that Glen's managed to get them to work in sync is a marvel..... chcategories is not Glen's mod so the fact he's helping you configure it is something you should be grateful for :-)

Oh, believe me I AM thankful!!! Glen, you rock, man!

Just spell my name correctly and I'll be happy ;)

So no one has figured out a way to uncollapse the subcatagories to the first level of subcatagories only I take it?

Thanks, Tim.

Categories Dressing with its Uncollapsed Categories option can be set to display pretty much any rational set of categories, including top & first subs only.

That's great i've downloaded and installed it but find it a bit confusing.

Any possiblity you could explain how to do just that?

Thanks, Tim.

I thought this would do it

define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '2|0|1');

But this shows all subcvats rather than just to the 1st level

There is a bit of ommission in the comments for that.
//active: 0=all tops/
should say
//active: 0=all cats, level control/
as that setting lets the level controls apply equally to all categories.
So you would use```php
define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '0|0|1');

I think it was left over from when the mod didn't apply to expanded categories, so "all tops" was the only possibility. It is fixed for the next version of Cat Dressing, to be released as soon as I finish final testing.

Thanks again. That has solved the more than 1 subcat opening, but now it doesn't open even when you click on the subcat. There is no way around that?

Sorry for being a pain.

You didn't say that you wanted active sub-subcats to show in the sidebox. Some people don't. In that case, you would use setting 4:

//3=full active tree, others per level/4=like 3, active branches only

define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '4|0|1');

If you want something different yet, other criteria can be coded in and the define choices extended.