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[connemara]

I would like to change the category menu titles to images - ONLY in the side menu.
So "Products", "Help" etc would use a graphic instead of a font.
The current CSS definition is global and I need to define each one somewhere.
This is for cart version 4.0.18
Should I create new css definitions and then add html to the actual labels with specified IDs?
Or is there a better way to go about this?
Thanks
Connie

[inebriate]

edit categories.tpl and change the stuff between the anchor (<a href="asdf">stuffbetweenanchor</a>) to <img src="images/{$categories[cat_num].category}.theimagefileextension" /> or <img src="images/{$subcategories[cat_num].category}.theimagefileextension" /> if you use subcategories

and place your images in the skin1/images directory as well as naming them exactly like their category names

[connemara]

Thank you for that information which I will keep handy- wasn't quite what I was looking for but highly useful!

I think I mis-titled my request. It is not the category title only that I want to customize, , but all TITLES in the main menu. (categories -which I named "shopping", help, specials, cart, etc) These are labels and the appearance controlled by the stylesheet.

I will attempt to insert an image of what I am trying to convey. .

I went to labels, and instead of setting the value to the word "categories", I tried to link to an image instead. Well it looked to be a start. I got the little box indicating no image was found- neither an absolute or relative link path worked AND discovered that it would affect other places (like in admin under the management section)

So how can I change those titles, for the customer side only? vertmenutitle is a global class used for all the menu titles now. Is it best to create new classes/IDs for each individual menu title? And where do you call them?

[inebriate]

are you linking to the correct directory? the directory starts off at skin1...to change just the titles on the customer side wrap the img src in {if $usertype eq "C"}{/if}

[connemara]

Thank you! I am getting so much closer and appreciate your patience.

So, I have wrapped the link like so:
{if $usertype eq "C"} <IMG src="skin1/images/shopping.gif" width="117" height="44" border="0" alt="Go Shopping>{/if}

The image shows perfectly, but I know I haven't done this quite correctly because the if statement shows on the customer menu and the whole code shows in the admin menu. Obviously I didn't quite get it. Is there something else I should be doing?
Connie

[connemara]

OK finally figured it out- at least so far so good


Connie