How to Convert and Combine Cat. & Info. Boxes together?

[Fuzz68]

Hi everyone - been lurking for past 3 weeks and learning OSC - this is a great resource!

 

I think I got most of it down - but my client would prefer to have all the links on left side displayed as buttons rather than text links.

 

here's the site: http://www.jaybharat.com

 

Now, I understand how to accomplish this with some fancy CSS formatting for the info box - but how can one implement this for the Categories box - this box has some squirrely code in it! :o

 

My Goal is to eliminate the boxes on left side but combine the content (Categories + Information) and display as either CSS rollovers or javascript on/off buttons - probably javascript - the client seems to like the standard javascript fare.

 

Now I understand I could recreate a seaparet custom box that uses links for the categories but if they add new products in the future I don't want to have to continually hack it.

 

Is there an easy way to do this?

 

I've searched this forum for a solution but haven't found anything yet, am I missing something?

 

any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated

 

thanks in advance!

 

Michael

[Wendy James]

If you want to use buttons, just standard not roll over buttons you can just enter the code for a button in your admin area when you set up the categories.

 

for example

category name is cat, where you would normally type in Cat put

<img src="urltopic/cat.jpg">

 

That doesn't get you the roll over, but it's a start. There are several contributions for DHTML or css menus, you could probably use one of those and use image backgrounds instead of just colors... just an idea. Wish I could be more help but the only way I know how to do mouse over effects for buttons is to hard code the links.

[Fuzz68]

If you want to use buttons, just standard not roll over buttons you can just enter the code for a button in your admin area when you set up the categories.

 

for example

category name is cat, where you would normally type in Cat put

<img src="urltopic/cat.jpg">

 

That doesn't get you the roll over, but it's a start. There are several contributions for DHTML or css menus, you could probably use one of those and use image backgrounds instead of just colors... just an idea. Wish I could be more help but the only way I know how to do mouse over effects for buttons is to hard code the links.

 

Thanks Wendy! - i tried the images but that results in a few side effects with relation to teh breadcrumbs pages and page titles. I'll keep looking - hopefully someone will have some info for me - i just hate the idea of tweaking this so far left and then, when a new version is released, having to recode it all over again.

 

M

[Wendy James]

Maybe looking at how they did one of the menu tab contributions would help? http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,989

or the code from "easy rollovers" contribution http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2054

[Fuzz68]

Maybe looking at how they did one of the menu tab contributions would help? http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,989

or the code from "easy rollovers" contribution http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2054

 

Thanks Wendy! i'll look into it!

 

michael

[Guest]

Hey, just saw your homepage. How did you remove the corner_left.gif in the boxes for categories and manufacturers? I have tried it but found out that it is still there but corner_right.gif and arrow_right.gif are disappeared which is correct. Give me a tip please.