Disable clicking on parent categories in category block in left hand side bar

[danrandon]

I'm looking to disable clicking on the parent category for any items that have a sub category. Is this possible?

 

i'm using the default them btw.

 

I'm new to prestashop and any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited December 4, 2014 by danrandon (see edit history)

[FullCircles]

If it's the blockcategories module, you should be able to target them like this:

 

In category-tree-branch.tpl

 

Find:

<a 
	href="{$node.link|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}"{if isset($currentCategoryId) && $node.id == $currentCategoryId} class="selected"{/if} title="{$node.desc|strip_tags|trim|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}">

Change it to:

	<a 
	href="{$node.link|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}"{if isset($currentCategoryId) && $node.id == $currentCategoryId} class="selected"{/if} title="{$node.desc|strip_tags|trim|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}"{if $node.children|@count > 0} onclick="javascript: return false;"{/if}>

Is a nice and simple solution. There are other ways of disabling links which you could look into, such as setting disabled="disabled" or disabling pointer events via css, but I find that to be the easiest way generally, plus it doesn't break the links if javascript isn't enabled (less and less of a thing these days, admittedly)

[danrandon]

You sir are a legend. Spot on. Many thanks