Extending Vertical Menu Background Colour
 

Hi, does anyone know how I can increase the length of our vertical menu so that it acts like a border for the full length of each page?
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Are you talking about the left hand menu table cell?

I sure am. Each page is a different length so not sure how I can accommodate making the menu stretch to suit each page size.
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Try making that table cell height="100%"

Having trouble working out which template includes the table with the menu content, is it customer/home/tpl? Which I have tried, but when I try to save it, I get the error message the "operation is (sic) failed".
Also to put a border down the right side of the page, is which template would I put the table?
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Both would be customer/home.tpl. If you can't save the file, it means the template doesn't have write permissions, be sure to change them to 666 to work on them.

Thanks. I can edit the code in Dreamweaver and upload it from there ok. No other files have this problem.

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Following is my code for the table that has the menu information in it from home.tpl. Ive added the height="100%" in the cell that contains the menu, but it doesnt change the length. It works for the right side column but not the left, what am I missing?
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<TABLE width="760" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<TR>
<TD height="100%" width="160" valign="top">
{if $categories ne "" and ($active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne "" or $config.General.root_categories eq "Y" or $subcategories ne "")}
{ include file="customer/categories.tpl" }
{/if}
{include file="help.tpl"}
{include file="auth.tpl"}
</TD>
<TD width="10">[img]{$ImagesDir}/spacer.gif[/img]</TD>
<TD valign="top">
{include file="location.tpl"}
{include file="dialog_message.tpl"}
{if $active_modules.Special_Offers ne ""}
{include file="modules/Special_Offers/customer/new_offers_message.tpl"}
{/if}
{include file="customer/home_main.tpl"}
</TD>
<TD width="5" valign="top" bgcolor="#9900cc" height="100%"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD colspan="4">
{ include file="poweredby.tpl" }
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

It does extend 100% you just don't have the background color set to purple :) Replace this line:

<TD height="100%" width="160" valign="top">

with this:

<TD height="100%" width="160" valign="top" bgcolor="#9900cc">

You must have the patience of a saint!
Thanks again.
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