How to move Magento page title above sidebar

magento, php, xml

Solution

First update the catalog layout to use the single column template. Then copy the catalog.leftnav block into the category.products block.

<!-- {THEME_PATH}/design/layout/catalog.xml -->
<catalog_category_default translate="label">

    <!-- Update the layout to use the single column template -->
    <reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
    </reference>

    <reference name="content">
        <block type="catalog/category_view" name="category.products" template="catalog/category/view.phtml">
            <!-- Move the catalog navigation block into the category view block -->
            <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml"/>
        </block>
    </reference>

</catalog_category_default>

Once the catalog.leftnav block is a child of the category.products block, you can use the getChildHtml() method to display it in the category.products view template.

<!-- {THEME_PATH}/design/template/catalog/category/view.phtml -->
<div class="category-view">

    <div class="page-header">
        ...
    </div>

    <div class="category-nav">
        <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('catalog.leftnav'); ?>
    </div>

    <div class="category-content">
        ...
        <?php echo $this->getProductListHtml(); ?>
        ...
    </div>

</div>

Style to your liking. Hope that helps.

Problem

I am trying to split up the 2-columns-left template on the category pages. Right now it looks like this: ``` _________________________________ | | | | | Page Title | | | | |(sidebar) | (main content) | | | | | | | |__________|____________________| ``` I need the category name and description to move up over the left menu, and fill the width 100% like this: ``` _________________________________ | | | Page Title | |_______________________________| | | | |(sidebar) | (main content) | | | | | | | |__________|____________________| ``` I cant figure out where to start. When I look in the XML it seems to not be a separate part that I can place elsewhere.

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