Category Clickability: Making Selected Categories Unclickable

Category Clickability: Making Selected Categories Unclickable

Categories and sub-categories are constructed to create a "category tree" of navigation.

Sometimes you wish to stop customers from clicking a specific category or sub-category but still want that category displayed in your navigation, e.g. it might have sub-categories.

Here is how to make a specific category or sub-category unclickable in your catalog navigation.

  1. Login to your Admin area
  2. Go to INVENTORY / Categories
  3. Click [Search]
  4. Enter the "ID" or "Category Name" and click the blue [SEARCH] button
  5. In the resulting list of matches, click the "ID" of the category to be changed
  6. Scroll down and click "Advanced Info" to expand it (if not already expanded)
  7. Click "Misc" in the left-margin
  8. In the "Alternate URL" field, enter: javascript:event.preventDefault();
  9. Click the blue [SAVE] button

Repeat these steps if you have additional categories to make unclickable.