Categories Dressing

Hello...

I have only installed the "ch_category" folder to display the
cat's and sub cat's only which is what we want...

LINK: http://bit.ly/iRWAVN

But a couple of issues:

1. We really need the cat's and sub cat's to all be LEFT justified...

• How can we accomplish this...?

2. I only have 1 product in right now under Magnets, but it
   seems to be showing up twice - strange...!

• It should only show up once right...?

Can you please help me out with this...?
I would greatly appreciate your assistance...
Thanx.. :shocking:

You need to install the whole mod (except for stylesheet_categories_dressing.css in your case), because the other files give unique class names to elements and stylesheet_chcategories_dressing.css can't affect elements without those classes. You can disable or not use any features you don't need.

"Magnets" is

Magnets-> (1) [top category]
→ Inspire Magnets
→ Faces of Faith Magnets (1) [subcat]

The Faces of Faith / Magnets wraps due to length and looks like two categories.

Hello gjh42...

Many thanx...
I followed your instructions and installed the full mod and
commented out the parts i didn't need and its working perfectly...!! Great Mod!!!

And thanx for catching the name that got Wrapped... duh :blush:

Best regards...

I have installed the files, including the Uncollapsed Categores Tree files, as directed in v2.7.3 Readme. In the Installation directions, it says to: "Activate the chcategories sidebox as described in readme_ch_categories.txt." Is this is a separate readme file as I am not seeing it in the files I downloaded with Categories Dressing?

Sorry, that file was left out of the v2.7.3 package. It has no real information that the main readme lacks; just go to Tools > Sidebox Controller and turn on chcategories in the desired location.

thanks gjh42...that missing piece of information ...to turn on ch_categories in Admin > Tools > Layout Boxes Controller ....was pretty important.

Another point of clarification on the stylesheets. Readme says under Installation if using Uncollapsed Categories Tree to "Rename the main package's stylesheet to stylesheet_categories.css.bak" but under Using Stylesheets it says to "replace #categories with #chcategories in all examples." Do I need both stylesheets?

I answered my own question about the stylesheets. They are the same except for a few added styles for the UL and UL A and UL UL.

Hi Glenn,

The indentation in my categories box is LARGE and causes the categories to go out the right side of the box.

I have installed the Categories Dressings Mod (version 2.7.3 from the Zen Cart site).

I installed both parts: Categories Dressings and Uncollapsed Categories Tree.

I disabled the old Categories box and enabled the new one (in Layout Boxes Controller).

I went into Configuration> Layout Settings and made the following 2 items blank (nothing there):
"Categories Separator between the Category Name and Sub Categories" and "Categories SubCategories Indent"

I am very new (one month) to all of the folders/files/code/css/etc. (customization).

Could you please tell me how I would go about fixing the indents - so all of the bullets start further to the left? I read somewhere about negative margins!?!? - not sure if that applies or how/where I would do that.

Thanks a BUNCH!!!

http://awesomebeginnings4children.com/store

Somehow your stylesheet_chcategories_dressing.css is not being applied at all. The file is in the right place, but is apparently being ignored. I will have to come back later to investigate what might be happening with it.

Thanks so much. I am VERY new to all this and have been doing Google searches and forum searches and can't figure it out.

I have made changes that didn't work and then changed them back again.

Thanks!!!

It is a template problem. Your template eliminates the standard unique div id for each sidebox, and just names them all .leftBoxContainer so they can't be distinguished. This is a serious flaw, and you should ask the template author to fix it.

Meanwhile, you can work around it by changing all instances of #chcategories to #chcategoriesContent .

Thanks!!!

Just to make sure that I understand:

In all 3 files (under classes, modules and templates) any place that I see chcategories with the # symbol in front of it - I should change it to #chcategoriesContent (add the word Content to the end of it)!?!?

Thanks so much.

I will also contact the author of the template as you instructed.

Hi Glenn,

You are amazing!!! It worked (#chcategoriesContent)! Thanks a TON!

When hovering over the links in the category box there are a ton of little lines. Do you know how I can get rid of them?

Thanks in advance!!!

In all 3 files (under classes, modules and templates)No, just in your stylesheet... but that is the only place you will see the id with a # in front of it. Elsewhere it will appear as something like id="chcategories", or more likely not appear at all since the sidebox name is dynamically generated.

I will have to look at it to see what lines you are talking about.

Hmm... I don't see anything that could be described as "little lines", in Firefox or IE.

Hi Glen,

Just a quick question for you, if you have time to look at https://www.silkblooms.co.uk?

A lot of our customers are missing the link to our "Coming Soon" gallery so I was hoping to add a text link to it just underneath "> Hire Products ...". Is there a simple way to do this?

I'm thinking of adding a new category called "Coming Soon" but if I do that, it will automatically assign a <a href=""> to the category. I want the <a href=""> to take them to the gallery at http://www.silkblooms.co.uk/index.php?main_page=coming_soon

I guess what I'm asking is how to change the URL that's assigned to categories?

I've set up a test category on this page:

http://www.silkblooms.co.uk/wholesale/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=353

How would I make the URL from "Coming Soon" take you to http://www.silkblooms.co.uk/index.php?main_page=coming_soon instead of http://www.silkblooms.co.uk/wholesale/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=353 ??

OK, this is proving more tricky than I imagined. I've given up on the fake category as it's a nightmare to redirect with .htaccess, so I've created a heading in the categories dressing define. But how do I add a URL link to that?

http://www.silkblooms.co.uk/wholesale/

I've called it Coming Soon2 so you can recognise it. It's throwing the positions out as well. I'd like it to appear at the top of the group (above all products).

This site isn't live so I'll fix the knock on effect it's having on the colour filter group positioning later.

Hello everyone
Ive removed the box around the category and there are a a couple of things I cannot figure out..
after adding a heading how will I be able to extend it so it takes the full width of my sidebox and not just 142px..
Ive tried everything in css and came to the conclusion I cant fix it using css and need to unwrap the div within the box.
anyone know how I can do that? or maybe im mistaken?
ive attached a pic so you can see what im talking about

Attachment #9443

What i would like to do is have the area around mens store be extended to the line with out any space like how womens store is and also the line above that i would like to remove the space so the category is touching the line... make it seem like having a whole new category insted of one long category thats dressed up :wink:

Tried to figure this out on my own but it's going over my head.

I want a background image for the top level categories only. At the mo I can only achieve a background image for all categories (top and subs) or a background image for the selected top level category.

I know the answer will be ultra simple, I just cannot work it out. Any help would be great! Thanks.