Where do I set the cell background colour in categories/subcategories?

[mad_dexter]

Hi. Yes it's me again

My site is a tabular presentation with categories and sub categories which do not need images.

The text of subcategories in 2.0.25 is obviously centred but looks messy with differing length of text spread over 3 columns and several rows

Antibodies + Antigen : Immune Systems Ltd

I think it might look more balanced if each cell was the same size and the background was shaded/coloured. Is this possible?

Cheers.

[ridexbuilder]

Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Do some redesign of index_nested.tpl.php, defining new/replacement classes and css - with FF/Firebug to help.

BTW: good use of "For more information, please visit this products webpage." but go into includes/languages/english and change to something like "Click here for PDF product specifications". I also wonder if you're hard-coding the full URL, or better, a relative one by just using... pdf/fastread.pdf

[mad_dexter]

Hi ridexbuilder,

A bit off topic but as I am replying to one of your replies to the thread I thought it would be easier to follow..

I have a couple of problems with the product link now... It looks like its a redirect. Is this correct? I was expecting an a link.

I had used the absolute URL in the product description as you commented, and it used to work but this now translates into a very long redirect and I end up with a blank page. You mentioned relative url but I cannot get this to work and get a "Server not found" error.

I did tried your suggestion
pdf/product.pdf but the url appears as http://pdf/fastread.pdf

I have also tried various permutations eg ../pdf/fastread.pdf

Could you give me some guidance on the syntax.

Cheers.

[ridexbuilder]

Example product?
Also, should read as

pdf/duotray.pdf

or similar.

Hold on... that's the URL link in the Admin for a product? May well be hard-coded as a redirect, due to it normally being used to reference an external site. Would require some 'tweaking' to prevent it doing that and would break any possibility to use it for its' intended purpose, AFAIK.

[ridexbuilder]

You'd need to change from line 183, of product_info.tpl.php

      <tr>
        <td class="main"><?php echo sprintf(TEXT_MORE_INFORMATION, tep_href_link(FILENAME_REDIRECT, 'action=url&goto=' . urlencode($product_info['products_url']), 'NONSSL', true, false)); ?></td>
      </tr>

to something like...

      <tr>
        <td class="main"><?php echo '<a href = ' . $product_info['products_url'] . '>' . TEXT_MORE_INFORMATION . '</a>'; ?></td>
      </tr>

Untested!

[mad_dexter]

Thanks for getting back. I will persist with the full admin URL for now.

When tested in FCKeditor the product link works fine and the url appears as http://www.immunesystems.co.uk/catalog/pdf/fastread.pdf but when clicked from the webpage

Immune Systems Ltd : FastRead Counting Slides (100 slides/box) [BVS100] - £121.00

The url appears as:

redirect.php?action=url&goto=www.immunesystems.co. uk%2Fcatalog%2Fpdf%2Ffastread.pdf&osCsid=3dc76d99e 554e393582bf5ddaf6e64af

and gives a blank page. I uploaded the original backup product_info.tpl.php so its not that. Any ideas?

Cheers.

[mad_dexter]

Actually, I get a different URL link everytime I refresh the page. Please dont say its a virus

[ridexbuilder]

Did you try the code in post #5 ?

P.S. There's a big section of hidden code at the bottom of the page.

[mad_dexter]

The code is to do with DHTML menu to define that expands when hovering over the LH menu.

I will try your suggestion now.

[mad_dexter]

Hi ridexbuilder

Yes, tried the code from #5
The a href looks good, but the page goes to

http://www.immunesystems.co.uk/catalog/%s

Firebug shows...

<td class="main">
<a href="www.immunesystems.co.uk/catalog/pdf/fastread.pdf"></a>
<a target="_blank" href="%s>
<u> Product Information sheet </u>
</a>
.
</td>