Text Hyperlink

[Wendy]

Hi y'all...........this may be a "duh" question, BUT one I need the answer to........... how do you make a text hyperlink to a product category without using the category name.

Like instead of the link saying "meade telescopes" how to I just make a text link that says "view all" that links to the meade telescopes category? :confused: (I'm using Viking Coders Category Pages and I need that link for a template so it needs to link to the appropriate category which is being shown). I've made similar links using images and the alt image token, but this particular one I want to be text, no image.

Is that possible?

[ILoveHostasaurus]

<a href="http://www.domain.com/path">View All</a>

[erichar11]

How about something like this:

<a href="http://www.....com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=a-Meade-Telescopes">view all</a>

[Wendy]

Hi David,

That won't work! It needs to be dynamic.

See this page: http://tinyurl.com/h4ms2

See on the left it says "Meade Telescopes", that is the category name and everything under it is a subcategory -- just to the right of where it says "Meade Telescopes" I want to put a text link that says view all (kinda like a %catnameL% but I don't want to repeat the categories name).

If I put a link like you have, I'll have to have a different template for each category..........unless I'm missing something all together :confused:

[Wendy]

Please remove my site's URL from this post! I purposely use tiny URL's for links to my site as a matter for course regarding privacy issues.

Thank you!!!!


How about something like this:

[ILoveHostasaurus]

See on the left it says "Meade Telescopes", that is the category name and everything under it is a subcategory -- just to the right of where it says "Meade Telescopes" I want to put a text link that says view all (kinda like a %catnameL% but I don't want to repeat the categories name).


What is it actually supposed to link to? Do you have another category that contains all the products from all the subcategories?

[Wendy]

If "Meade Telescopes" were entered into the Cat Templates as %catnameL% it would link to the category -- which is a page that shows all the subs with nice pics and stuff...........but I don't want that to be a hyperlink......I just want the cat name there and then something that says "view all" that links to that cat page.

Make sense? :D

[ILoveHostasaurus]

A link has to go to something, I'm not sure what exactly you want it to go to in this case. Is there a category with the code "Meade Telescopes" or something?

[Wendy]

YES!!!!! Exactly!

[erichar11]

Hi Wendy, My appologies for posting your link. But I can't figure out how to update my post to remove the specific link. Suggestions? I only get an edit button if its that last message.:o

[Wendy]

Yeah, you have to "edit" it within 10 minutes -- Miva won't allow deletion.

I've written to Miva directly to ask them to remove my URL.

Thanks for trying! :-)

[Wendy]

If you click on the "view all image" or the picture to the left of the sub cat's, that is the page I'm trying to link to, without having to repeat the category name ........... does that make more sense now?

[Datagg]

Im confused also....yet I think in hearing what I had to do on my site as i have many categories under certain mains... For instance

At this url

http://www.girlfriendslingerie.com/sexy-lingerie/costumesmain.html

which is on my main nav, it goes to a sub category page that lists all within it.

What i did was make a new html page to insert on that category and placed the html in the header section. This is how i do all my subs.

if this wasnt your intention my appologies....

[Wendy]

nope, that's not it either.

You are probably confused because when you looked at the link, my issue has already been resolved.

I used an image instead that says "View All"

[Datagg]

nope, that's not it either.

You are probably confused because when you looked at the link, my issue has already been resolved.

I used an image instead that says "View All"

ahhh ok........ Glad you got it Wendy

[Wendy]

Thank you! I appreciate your trying to help :)