Changing menu catagories
 

How do you change the menu catagories to images instead of txt

Thanks

To the category images or other images?

sorry the menu have images not txt

Yes, but WHAT images do you want to show in the menu? The category images that you upload via admin, or other images?

well the images can be uploaded to the image folder in skin1 then pulled on my site l want the text say "Epson ink cartridges" put on a plain button.

Thanks

You could just use CSS to put a background image behind the existing menu text...will be a lot easier. Have a look at the way button.tpl is set up.

will this put a background behind all the text

No, you can get a default image behind each of the pieces of text, like a blank button.

sorry to be thick but l cant make head nor tail of this

{* $Id: button.tpl,v 1.16.2.1 2004/11/01 07:33:15 max Exp $ *}
{if $config.Adaptives.platform eq 'MacPPC' && $config.Adaptives.browser eq 'NN'}{assign var="js_to_href" value="Y"}{/if}
{if $type eq 'input'}{assign var="img_type" value='INPUT type="image"'}{else}{assign var="img_type" value='IMG'}{/if}
{assign var="js_link" value=$href|regex_replace:"/^\s*javascript\s*:/Si":""}
{if $js_link eq $href}{assign var="js_link" value="javascript: self.location='`$href`'"}
{else}{assign var="js_link" value=$href}{if $js_to_href ne 'Y'}{assign var="onclick" value=$href}{assign var="href" value="javascript: void(0);"}{/if}{/if}
{if $style eq 'button' && ($config.Adaptives.platform ne 'MacPPC' || $config.Adaptives.browser ne 'NN')}
<TABLE border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" onclick="{$js_link}" style="cursor: pointer;" valign="middle"{if $title ne ''} title="{$title}"{/if}>
<TR><TD><{$img_type} src="{$ImagesDir}/but1.gif" width="7" height="14" border="0"{if $title ne ''} title="{$title}"{/if}></TD>
<TD class="Button" valign="middle" nowrap><FONT class="Button">{$button_title}</FONT></TD>
<TD>[img]{$ImagesDir}/but2.gif[/img]</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
{else}
<FONT class="FormButton">{$button_title} <{$img_type} {include file="buttons/go_image.tpl" full_url='Y'}></FONT>
{/if}

I would be very interested in seeing how this is done also. It seems like such an obvious thing but as i'm learning fast - nothing in x-cart is obvious!