Styling Category Navigation

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   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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colfaxintl Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 08-September-2009 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote colfaxintl Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Styling Category Navigation 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

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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.

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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.
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