This Post is for Beginner as Some of my Magento Developer Friends have problem in Editing The Navigation. I'm Just point out where the files are that you need to edit the top and left navigation.
It is bit confusing and some how complicated because of the use of javascript in the navigation,but it’s not too bad. It ends up being a bunch of functions which just spits out the proper HTML and javascript to get things going (and some code to retrieve the categories).
First off, the template files.
The files that have the HTML are located here:
1. app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/navigation/left.phtml
2. app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/navigation/top.phtml
Top.phtml controls (you guessed it) the navigation in the header area (including the drop down portions, which are controlled via javascript)
Left.phtml controls the left hand navigation, if you set your categories to be an anchor to get the left hand navigation to be used.
Now the file that pulls the categories (and has some functionality to create some of the HTML) is here:
app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Navigation.php
You should review this to see the various functions and see what they do.
The functions “drawItem” and “drawOpenCategoryItem” should be of particular interest, since they create some HTML to output.
isn't it so simple just start creating custom navigation!
Source
It is bit confusing and some how complicated because of the use of javascript in the navigation,but it’s not too bad. It ends up being a bunch of functions which just spits out the proper HTML and javascript to get things going (and some code to retrieve the categories).
First off, the template files.
The files that have the HTML are located here:
1. app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/navigation/left.phtml
2. app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/navigation/top.phtml
Top.phtml controls (you guessed it) the navigation in the header area (including the drop down portions, which are controlled via javascript)
Left.phtml controls the left hand navigation, if you set your categories to be an anchor to get the left hand navigation to be used.
Now the file that pulls the categories (and has some functionality to create some of the HTML) is here:
app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Navigation.php
You should review this to see the various functions and see what they do.
The functions “drawItem” and “drawOpenCategoryItem” should be of particular interest, since they create some HTML to output.
isn't it so simple just start creating custom navigation!
Source
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