Categories Dressing

The order of the defines makes no difference.

You should be able to make your special group of categories inline while the rest display as usual, by setting the first item in each define '1|0||' correctly (to start a new group or not). I can give specific advice if I can see your site live.

It's live right now, probably for another 30 minutes (til 1:50ish AM ET) while I work on a separate issue.

www.thenutritionshoppe.net/shop

Thank you!

Found the problem that was causing that rule to not function: you are missing a */ on a comment, so the last section of the file was being ignored.

/*example for custom category group styling
ul#catGroup1 {
background: #bbeeff;
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
border: thin solid #00FF00;
}
/add new rule/
ul#catGroup1 li.cat-top, ul#catGroup1 li.cat-top>a {display: inline;}

Actually, I had commented that out for troubleshooting. Sorry. The comment closed below there. I've reactivated it, but it's as stubborn as before.

Note: the box for the group does appear to open before A and close after Z but nothing appears to be contained within it.

(Looks like I'll keep it up for about another 25 minutes, til 2:40ish)

It worked when I tested it on your site...

Then I'm missing something still. I'll try again. But what I'm getting is still a tall, narrow list, not anything that appears "inline" UNLESS the "box"/block it's in is too narrow to allow multiple items side by side.

I got it! I had a couple issues: stray character to start was making the inline fail for me. (I-D-10-T error here.) Then with "inline" for display for both the ul and the li (instead of "block" for the ul), it was causing the formatting to be hidden.

Thank you so much for your help!

Hi, I've been working on my new clothing site today and im trying to make two category boxes, for male and female clothing. I set up the first box okay with images for each category, I set up the second box using the DocumentCategories method but when setting the images this just made two of each category, one in each box, with only the first box showing images and the second showing plain text. Any idea what i'd have to do to make the certain category images only show in the DocumentCategory box? Sorry if this has been asked. Thanks :smile:

I always hoped I'd be the one with answers and not questions, but I think I overlooked something. In short, I've used Category Dressing before and now I want to use it with the flyout based menu.

I'm using the CSS update tip from post #1608, #1709, and #1710, but all I'm seeing are the two initial category headers I created and none of the sub-categories.

I always post when I've exhausted my own abilities and research, but can someone tell me where I messed up? I'm wondering if there's a missing file, CSS conflict, tpl_category screwup or something else I just can't see.

The Test Site:
order dot smimotorsports dot com

Hi, I've managed to get my categories into the right boxes but now I just need a way of changing each category in the Documents Category to an image. Any ideas? Thanks :smile:

sportbiker - the current version of the flyout code works correctly on your site:

#chcategories li>ul {display: none;}

#chcategories li:hover {position: relative;}

#chcategories li:hover>ul {
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    left: 98%;
    top: 0;
    background: #ffffff;
    border: 1px solid #aabbcc;
    z-index: 100;
    width: 98%;
    }

Your rules are from a very specific case of flyout styling, and are too specific for universal functioning. They apply only to sub-subcategories.```
/add these rules/
#chcategories ul ul ul {/subcategory lists/
display: none;
}

#chcategories ul ul li:hover {position: relative;}

#chcategories ul ul li:hover>ul {/subcategory lists/
display: block;
width: 95%;
position: absolute;
left: 95%;
top: 0;
border: 1px solid #6699dd;
}

corry - Categories Dressing will not work on the Documents sidebox, only the Categories sidebox. If you have installed Categories Dressing, you can get the two-box appearance by creating "category groups" (like #catGroup48 etc.).```
/example for custom category group styling/
ul#catGroup48 {
border: 1px solid #bd6699;
background: #bbeeff;
position: relative;
left: -1.3em;
top: 0.2em;
}

PS - If you look at sportbiker's test site from the previous post 1748, you will see an example of two boxes with their own headings. It is also possible to hide the outer container so both boxes look like independent sideboxes.

Is it possible to have the two boxes on opposite sides of the page as this is my main goal? Thanks for your help

That is more difficult. It can work for some circumstances, but not if the size of the boxes will change dynamically.

Some people have used the ch_categories option alongside the regular categories (turning on both categories and chcategories sideboxes in Tools > Layout Boxes Controller) with custom code (possibly just CSS in the stylesheet) to limit the categories displayed in each box. This is actually two separate, fully functioning sideboxes.

Hiya, I've got ch_categories working okay but it's showing every category. I'm pretty sure I just need to make simple value changes to the file ch_categories_tree_generator.php. I'd like it to only display categories with ID's over 100. Any help would be great, sorry to be a pain. Thanks :)

Hi, can anyone help me with this small problem? I currently have ch_categories dressing installed and seem to work fine except one of my links in sidebox is displaying as a background image hiding the text. I recently had some trial and errors and originally created a bg image called catbg4 matching the cat. ID#4that's being affected. I recently deleted the image and any define statements to stop any images as headings. My work-in-progress site is http://marketingkeys.org/public_html/index.php?main_page= and you can see that my original category sidebox is being affected with category ID#4

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

Actually, there are settings in categories_dressing_defines.php specifically for configuring how and which kinds of categories display. Read up on it in the readme and look at the defines file, and I will look at it when I have time to advise you.

Hiya, I checked out the file but I wasn't sure how to make it work for the ch_category box. Just to clarify, I'm trying to put different categories into each of the two boxes. Any help would be much appreciated when you have a spare moment. :)

I have installed this fine, but now it comes to the stage of changing the defaults of the category box and I just don't understand the readme.

I would like the various types of book product available as categories - paperbacks, ebooks, audio books; followed by a "Authors" category, made up of subcategories of the author names. I have made a start setting these up in the admin panel - I just need to display them properl in the box

So, I need to get rid of major heading / minor heading provided in the default and get these categories in the right order. The readme is making my head spin.

Especially - how do I find out what the cPath is for a category?

I would be grateful if someone could explain in a more digestable form.

Oh - what I have so far is at: http://www.ellybooks.co.uk/shop/