text rollover to display categories help
 

I have this bar for navigation on my site

|Home|Help|Contact Us|Gallery|Shop|Gift Certificates|Returns|FAQ|

There is a black bar above and below. I have installed horizontal menu categories with the subcat's which come up on rollover. Which is underneath the nav bar.
what i want to do is have the categories menu bar come up only when 'Shop' is hovered over or clicked on.
I have googled and found nothing on how i could go about this.
Can this be done? Is there some sort of rollover trickery that i could use to do this?

,Chris

www.slixaustralia.com.au/shop/home.php
PS the site is a bit of a mess due to me stuffing around im trying to get rid of the ugly side bar ie. more streamlined
X-cart gold 4. some thing

Re: text rollover to display categories help
 

Just make the whole navigation bar part of the DHTML menu. Have a look at DynamicDrive.com or get Phil's excellent CSS menus here:

http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/

Re: text rollover to display categories help
 

I see what your saying ie. continue same theme in .tpl adding the static links after the horizontal flyout. but is there any way i can have the categories come up only when 'shop' is hovered over? I only need the first categories to come up not really needing subcat's

shop (hovered over)
| jdfsjhdf | sljdfsh | ajhdf | sajhdfj | (hidden categories come up)

,chris

PS thanks for prompt reply

Re: text rollover to display categories help
 

That's exatly what I mean. You can use either Phil's horizontal category flyout, or you can use DynamicDrive's flyout menu that shows up when you click on or hover on a link. That one won't be automatic, but Phil's will. For his you'll need to create a 'Shop' root category.

Re: text rollover to display categories help
 

I got it now thanks for pointing that out. My brain must have been malfunctioning, lol i can't believe i was standing on top of it and missed the point by a mile ;)

Re: text rollover to display categories help
 

i have encountered another problem the horizontal. tpl link takes up a whole line???
u can see it here i tried to restrict it with <td> and specifing pixels in the tpl but nothing happens?
www.slixaustralia.com.au/shop/home.php

Re: text rollover to display categories help
 

That's what I mean...you need to add the other links into the flyout template, you can't just call the flyout template in the middle of other links.