Hello friens

I try to move the categories list to the place holder in the norrow left panel of master file that panel used to hold Help and links.

The format of the list came in with two columns where can I get to the code to reduce it to one column.

Thanks     

Always back up first 

You don't need to change the masterpage - go to the page you want to change lets say default.aspx and find this piece of code  <div id="announcements">

Copy the following code directly above <div id="announcements"> -

  <div id="col_main_left">
     <uc1:CategoryBrowse ID="CategoryBrowser" runat="server" AutoNavigate="True"></uc1:CategoryBrowse>
                          </div>
  
You should then end up with 2 category lists on you page  1 in the left panel and the original - you can then work out how to remove the original and its subcategories

This will only show the top level categories

if you want the subdategories to show just move all the code and the div tags into the col_main_left

Hope this helps - you can then apply the same logic on other pages 

<div id="body">

<div id="col_main_right">

<uc1:FeaturedAd ID="FeaturedAd" runat="server" />

</div>

<div id="col_main_left">

<h3 class="section">

Browse For Boat Type</h3>

<div class="content_right">

<uc1:CategoryBrowse ID="CategoryBrowser" runat="server" AutoNavigate="True"></uc1:CategoryBrowse>

</div>

<div id="Div1">

<uc1:CategoryBrowse ID="CategoryBrowse1" runat="server" AutoNavigate="True"></uc1:CategoryBrowse>

</div>

<div id="announcements">

................................................................................

what effect the code did to the home page was it shift all categories in two columns view (still 2) on the the left narrow panel

and add another set of identical categories list but a little larger font under the original one. what have I done wrong. what I try to do was,

I try to fit the categories list in the narrow left panel in only one column view. I will find the way to put drop down list for the sub categories if it only list the top level one. 

your help are always appreciated

thanks 

<div id="body">

<div id="col_main_right">

<uc1:FeaturedAd ID="FeaturedAd" runat="server" />

</div>

<div id="col_main_left">

<h3 class="section">

Browse For Boat Type</h3>

<div class="content_right">

<uc1:CategoryBrowse ID="CategoryBrowser" runat="server" AutoNavigate="True"></uc1:CategoryBrowse>

</div>

<div id="Div1">

<uc1:CategoryBrowse ID="CategoryBrowser" runat="server" AutoNavigate="True"></uc1:CategoryBrowse>

</div>

<div id="announcements">

That should help tidy the page - now look at the controls section and review the code for categorybrowse  - everything that happens when calling this control is coded here.

I have done this on my site, but i have no original code to compare it to and cannot remember exactly what i did

I remember what I did now

Copy the categorybrowse.ascx file and paste it back to the control directory

Rename it Topcategorybrowse.ascx

change the ref in default.aspx to

<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="CategoryBrowse" Src="Controls/TopCategoryBrowse.ascx" %>

Make the following chages to TopCategorybrowse.ascx

These were the minimum number of changes required to get the changes I wanted - I am sure more code could be stripped out

I remember what I did now

Copy the categorybrowse.ascx file and paste it back to the control directory

Rename it Topcategorybrowse.ascx

change the ref in default.aspx to

<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="CategoryBrowse" Src="Controls/TopCategoryBrowse.ascx" %>

Make the following chages to TopCategorybrowse.ascx