General Discussion

Topic for general discussion regarding Nop Categories Header Menu

As I mentioned on the nopcommerce forum:

Hi,

Is it possible to give the active menu-item (or active child) an extra css class like 'active' ?
That way the navigation options are huge.

Kind regards,

Stephen

Hi Stephen,

Probably you have noticed that our plugin uses JQuery Superfish menu plugin.
You can find more information about it here http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/
As you can see there are many options for further customization of the menu.
That's why we made the razor view file open for modifications (rather than make it as an embedded view) and leave this to you to do whatever you want.
As long as you guys have the html and the css in your hands we bet we will see some very good menus very soon :)

Best Regards,
Nop-Templates Support Team

Thanks for this plugin !!!

I'm trying to override the default options,
no problems for example for the autoArrows,
but no success if setting dropShadows to true.
Is only a problem to put in the exact folder (which one ?)
the shadow.png file ?

Alessandro

Hi Alessandro,

How exactly do you make modifications to the Header Menu plugin?
Do you change the .js file directly?

You can just modify the Views\CategoriesHeaderMenu.cshtml razor view and include any css and js files that you would like.
You can even use another JQuery plugin to display the menu if you don't like this one.
You can also add new folders with images inside the plugin folder.

Please let us know if you manage to customize the plugin.
If you don't mind you can provide a link to your web site when you are done.
We intend to include the best Menus in our Showcase page.

Hope this helps!

I have only done a very very simple and easy test in localhost and now works as expected.
In two minutes my menu has the default 'original' look of the jQuery Superfish Menu with arrows and menu shadows (http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#examples)

If someone wants to try I'll post here the steps and code

Alessandro

Hi Alessandro,

Can you please post the steps and code?

Paul

Hi

I am using ver 2.20 with source code launched from Visual Studio 2010 and I cannot see the plugins in the admin area. all other plugins have the source code and project files available to compile in VS how do I show these plugins without compiling the projects?

Hi,

If you want to use our plugins locally with the nopCommerce sources then make sure you copy them in Presentation\Nop.Web\Plugins folder.

Best Regards,
Nop-Templates Support Team

Hi Support,

Excuse me, I like the idea of the product and of course it is all for free so who am I to complain. However it would be great if the output can be more adjusted:

@Html.Raw(Model.CategoriesHtml)

Does give me nice list-items and sub-items but there is no css-class state "active" or "current". In order to get superfish to recognize the current item this has to be done.

Is it possible to get a new version with this functionality ?

Kind regards,

Stephen