Categories Dressing

Thank you, I'm trying it, I'll post in case of further need.

Hi Glen,

Can you do me a favour and look at the reply here, from Dr. Byte:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?198172-Annoying-Home-Page-Validation-%28Just-one-Error%29&p=1138406&posted=1#post1138406

It seems the older version of Categories Dressing I'm suing is causing the only validation error on our home page and I can't seem to figue out where to put a </ul>

I'm not going to advise on correcting the obsolete version of the mod when upgrading will do the job better. More detail in the thread you referenced.

Hi Glen,

I tried to upgrade a while back and it was proving too difficult for me. Can't remember the issue I was having but I remember I gave up as it was taking me ages (I'm not that good at this :))

2.6 works really well apart from this one little validation error. Is there not a way to just insert a closing </ul> ?

Possibly, but I would have to research it as I don't remember what caused the issue in that version...

Did you change any of the v2.6 files aside from the defines?

Is Categories Dressing ok in v1.5.0?

I do not see confirmation in the downloads section so I thought I would ask here first before attempting to
install it.

Hi,

I've got a problem.
I have installed the Categories Dressing Mod.

I want to hide the top-level categories and only display the subcategories (level 2)

I have uncommented the following: "define('CAT_BOX_ACTIVE_LEVEL', '0|1|9');//hide top cats"
But on my site it doesnt show any categories at all now?

If I'm inside one of the level 2 categories it's working as it should.

What could be the problem?

I'm running zen cart 1.5.0
The site is in norwegian but on the left you'll find "Kategorier" wich is "Categories"

Link to frontpage: http://vesker.utkast.org/index.php?main_page=index
Link to a level 2 page: http://vesker.utkast.org/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=290

Thnx in advanced.
JDahlbom

Hello - I am running 1.5.0 cart and have recently installed the Categories Dressing Mod. You can see my site here krazycandle.com.

Is it possible to make the links under categories and information buttons. To give you an idea of what I have in mind is to make all the links look like Categories and Information header but be click able?

That is one of the basic features of the mod. Study the section of the readme on substituting images for category names and try it; then if you still need help, tell me exactly what you did.

I've installed Category Dressing with an Uncollapsable Tree.
I've added two text headings for my categories.
For some reason, on hover there still a background image appears which I beleive is catbghover.gif. It is a rectangle with those short lines along its perimeter. I have deleted it from includes/templates/customtemplate/images. It is not there, but still shows on hover.
I am using stylesheet_chcategories_dressing.css, and changed the name of stylesheet_categories_dressing.css.
I also commented out the image name in the stylesheet.
Developer's tool shows that it IS commented out.
And it is still there.
Is it possible the image is hiding somewhere else?
How to remove it?
The site is on my computer, cannot show it.
Thanks in advance.

The background image cannot display if it is not in the /your_template/images/ folder (or wherever the CSS is calling it from). Check the /template_default/images/ folder; if not found in the custom folder, the code will look in the default folder. > changed the name of stylesheet_categories_dressing.css. What did you change it to? If it still starts with "style" and ends with ".css", it will be autoloaded.

gjh42:

If it still starts with "style" and ends with ".css", it will be autoloaded.
I've changed it to .bak, and the background image is gone.

Thanks a lot!

Hi folks
Sorry but where do I get the most recent version of this? I've done every search I can think of on this thread and not found it, and found this too http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=411 but it hasn't been updated since 2009. Help!

That is the latest published version (v2.7.3), and it works fine with any version of Zen Cart. V2.8 of Categories Dressing in beta form is attached to post 1542 of this thread, if you want to use that. The one real bug it had only happened in IE7, so is pretty much irrelevant now.

I cannot get rid of the bullets for some reason. They are round black small circles.
I made it list-style: none everywhere on chcategories stylesheet.
They show not only left of categories, but also left of text headings which I've inserted into the categories box.
I am sure I am missing something, but don't know what.

Also, cannot make categories links change color on hover. When I click one, it becomes blue, and then it does change color on hover. But those unclicked are still black and don't react on hover. It was ok before categories dressing was installed, so may be again I am missing something?
Thanks.

on chcategories stylesheet.Do you still have the regular stylesheet_categories_dressing.css in your folder? If so, that will override some settings from chcategories. You should only have one of them.

The rest is really hard to advise on without seeing it live.

ok, thanks.

There are rules in the mod stylesheet to handle hover events. Study the stylesheet, and read the readme's Styling section.

gjh42:

That is the latest published version (v2.7.3), and it works fine with any version of Zen Cart. V2.8 of Categories Dressing in beta form is attached to post 1542 of this thread, if you want to use that. The one real bug it had only happened in IE7, so is pretty much irrelevant now.

Thanks so much!

Hi Glen,

I'm just wondering if there's an easy way to change the anchor text that people click, to take them to the individual categories on site. For example, look at www.silkblooms.co.uk:

We have a colour filter set up on the left hand side, below the main categories:

Colour Filter:
-White......-Ivory
-Cream......-Pink
-Peach......-Orange
-Purple......-Red
-Green......-Yellow
-Silver......-Gold
-Brown......-Black
-Tartan.....-Grey
-Aqua......-Blue

For SEO pruposes, it would be so much better is these categories were re-named to "white wedding flowers", "cream wedding flowers, "peach wedding flowers"...... and so on. However, changing the category names will also change the anchor text, in the category tree on the website.

Is there a way to control the anchor text, so it can be different from the category name?