Possibility to order categories visually only

[morvy]

Is it hard to change the way how categories are rendered ? I mean, I have 6 categories, 3 of them are more important (1,2,3) and have around 20 subcategories and then there are 3 less important categories (4,5,6), that have only 5 subcategories. If I want to show them horizontally ordered (1,2,3 | 4,5,6) I need to reorder them in backend to 1,4,2,5,3,6 which visually looks good, but when you want to select category in searchbox, they are ordered differently like on homepage (of course, they are ordered vertically, not horizontally..)

is there any way how to change this behavior?

[_CONEJO]

Hi morvy,


I changed yout topic to "Themes" since I think it's something to do with them more than with suggestions.

I'm afraid I really don't know much about themes/css/styles but I think it's possible to reorder the categories the way you want to

[morvy]

well, I don't think theme handles the way how categories are rendered.

now they are organized like this:

.col c1 | .col c2 | .col c3

every .col contains .category ..but now it works the way that .col1 containt categories 1,2; .col2 has 3,4; .col3 had 5,6 ..this behavior has to be hardcoded in core I think.

I would like to have an option to throw away those .col, so categories can organize itself with float:left in rows, not columns.

I think every user wants important categories on top, not in first column .. now I have 3 main categories (with 20 subcatogories in each) in only one column ..this is really bad, because there is lot of white space..

col1 has 63 rows, col2 has 14 rows, col3 has 10 rows ... after switching from columns to rows display mode, it could be col1 with 28 rows, col2 with 28 rows and col3 with 31 rows ...