ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Styling Category Navigation https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:54:11 +0000 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:55:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3022 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Styling Category Navigation : Your options depend on how often...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/styling-category-navigation_topic3022_post11309.html#11309 Author: Hamish
Subject: 3022
Posted: 10-September-2009 at 6:55am

Your options depend on how often your navigation is going to change and how that change would be achieved :-
- Hardly ever - You could code the navigation completely independantly of the generated navigation. Downside - all updates require someone who is comfortable amending code. Upside - Complete control over the styling of every element.

- Occasionally - As per the suggestion from Greg (and the best route IMHO). Downside, one off effort to amend the code if amending the supplied CSS does not meet your needs. Upside, regenerating a new copy of the navigation is very easy.

- Very Frequently - Investigate dynamic navigation, where the navigation is generated on the fly - code available from the EarlyImpact developers corner if memory serves me right.
Downside - an overhead on each page as the DB is queried each time a page is displayed.
Upside, navigation is always correct. For almost every site this is overkill.  
]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:55:36 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/styling-category-navigation_topic3022_post11309.html#11309 <![CDATA[Styling Category Navigation : Our approach has been to use a...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/styling-category-navigation_topic3022_post11306.html#11306 Author: Greg Dinger
Subject: 3022
Posted: 10-September-2009 at 1:18am

Our approach has been to use a revised version of the nav generator which create unordered lists, then style the different levels accordingly.  It means custom code - but if you want to achieve a particular look, sometimes that's the only solution.]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:18:12 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/styling-category-navigation_topic3022_post11306.html#11306 <![CDATA[Styling Category Navigation : Can the main categories, sub categories...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/styling-category-navigation_topic3022_post11305.html#11305 Author: colfaxintl
Subject: 3022
Posted: 10-September-2009 at 1:10am

Can the main categories, sub categories and ... be styled differently? In the generate storefront navigation feature, it seems to me that one can assign only a single class to the entire navigation, so there cannot be any distinctiveness.
 
Thanks,
Manish
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