Show subcategories on homepage

[adexinc]

Hi,

I am looking to rewrite the code so that the subcategories listed on the homepage to not appear in tables... before I begin I would like to see if anyone has already done this and is willing to share some code.

I have searched for this but it appears like there is no specific data provided as to what to do and where

Anyways, as always any 'help' is appreciated.

Thank you
Joanna

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

The issue that you are seeing is that within the browse.tpl file the array data is being put into a table cell <td> with the parent category, then each subcategory. The nature of a data cell within a table is that it will always auto adjust the height to contain the data within it. In your picture you have a table with two columns and therefore when one <td> has several subcategories it will make the height larger and will leave white space in the adjacent <td> that does not have as many of the subcategories.

The only way that I know of to get around that is to rewrite the browse.tpl file to use CSS boxes to contain the data instead of a table. This will get complicated and you would have to be an advanced coder for smarty and CSS to accomplish this.

[freeze2]

Originally Posted by adexinc

Hi,

I am looking to rewrite the code so that the subcategories listed on the homepage to not appear in tables... before I begin I would like to see if anyone has already done this and is willing to share some code.

I have searched for this but it appears like there is no specific data provided as to what to do and where

Anyways, as always any 'help' is appreciated.

Thank you
Joanna

Hi there...I think this is what you're after...

Using divs instead of table columns on home page