Increasing the category description length before needing to click "More"

[sscardefield]

PrestaShop 1.5.3

 

I am trying to increase the amount of characters that show in the category description before needing to click "More". The default is 120 characters, which is one line. I'd like to up it to something like 8 lines. I have changed the two category description settings in the category.tpl to 1000, but it made no difference. Is there something I'm missing?

 

  {if $category->description}
<div class="cat_desc">
{if strlen($category->description) > 1000}
 <p id="category_description_short">{$category->description|truncate:1000}</p>
 <p id="category_description_full" style="display:none">{$category->description}</p>
 <a href="#" onclick="$('#category_description_short').hide(); $('#category_description_full').show(); $(this).hide(); return false;" class="lnk_more">{l s='More'}</a>
{else}
 <p>{$category->description}</p>
{/if}
</div>
  {/if}

Edited March 31, 2013 by sscardefield (see edit history)

[Paulito]

Silly question, you have tried force compile etc

 

Paul

[sscardefield]

Yes, I have tried with Force compilation on and off.

[sscardefield]

I feel embarrased reporting this, but I was in the wrong theme.

 

I have like 10 themes loaded, all with weird random generated names from the theme creator I used for my site, so I had gotten confused on which one was currently loaded.

[Drage-Birger]

Hey Guys,

 

 

This is fantastic! I just did this modification on my shop: DrageByen.dk and it worked like a charm... While I was at it, I also removed the gray box that was around the category-description... That made it all look so much better...!

 

Thank you so much...!

 

 

Sincerely,

Birger

[chsode]

Hi guys.

 

I tried to do the same on my website Medieplaneten.dk - but with no luck.

 

I tried to apply the following code:

 

{if $display_category_desc && $category->description}

<div class="cat_desc">

{if (!isset($sttheme.display_cate_desc_full) || !$sttheme.display_cate_desc_full) && strlen($category->description) > 1000}

                    {if isset($description_short)}

                    <div id="category_description_short">{$description_short|truncate:1000}</div>

                    {else}

<div id="category_description_short" style="height:1.5em;overflow:hidden;">{$category->description|truncate:1000}</div>

                    {/if}

<div id="category_description_full" style="display:none">{$category->description}</div>

<a href="#" onclick="$('#category_description_short').hide(); $('#category_description_full').show(); $(this).hide(); return false;" class="lnk_more go">{l s='More'}</a>

{else}

<div>{$category->description}</div>

{/if}

</div>

{/if}

</div>

 

Any ideas what i did wrong?

 

Best regards

 

Christian

Edited May 6, 2014 by chsode (see edit history)

[vekia]

i cant find any product on your website with this button

[chsode]

i cant find any product on your website with this button

True. I changed the design as i could not get it to work.

 

I wanted it to either show as i wanted it to, or just move it down under the products, and as i could not get it to work i decided to move it instead

[Jagotic]

Works for me, really great