Styling Category Navigation
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Topic: Styling Category Navigation
Posted By: colfaxintl
Subject: Styling Category Navigation
Date Posted: 10-September-2009 at 1:10am
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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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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date 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.
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Posted By: Hamish
Date 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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