Editing Quantity Field

[magicalwonders]

I'm having a bit of a problem making changes to the Quantity option that shows on the product pages.

At the moment I have the word "Quantity" with a large rectangular box underneath for customers to input the number of items they want.

I would like to change this to the word "QTY" with a much smaller box to the right hand side of this word on the same line. At present the "Quantity box" is so big it holds 17 digits! I want to resize it to hold 2 or 3 digits.

I did a search for the word Quantity in Design/Text and replaced with QTY but this didn't seem to do anything at all. (At least on the product page!)

Can anyone advise as to what I need to edit to make these changes?

Thanks,

Myles Sinclair

[NormanRouxel]

The word "Quantity:" on your product pages comes from Design / Text / Phase -1, ID 166. The text field is usually only 4 digits wide and comes from Phase -1 ID, 2173 .

If changing these has no effect then someone has customised your product templates to replace NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY with alternative code.

Norman

[magicalwonders]

Hi Norman,

The first time I tried this, I found two references for "Quantity". One at ID: 159 and the other as you mention at ID:166. I changed them both, then changed them back when it didn't seem to work.

However, I think I must have forgotten to "apply" the second reference ID:166 as it has now changed the text to QTY: The box has also reduced in size to hold 9 digits. The code that shows for reference ID:2173 is as follows:-

%s<INPUT TYPE=text NAME="%s" SIZE="4" VALUE="%d">
Which from what you say sounds to be correct.

I'm not sure why the Quantity box is showing this size of 9 digits long, although it has reduced dramatically, having edited the word "Quantity" to "QTY"

I have edited the template Act_productline, but I've been careful to replace the Netquotevars. including the Netquotevar:Productquantity

That particular cell contains the following code:

<td width="50"> NETQUOTEVAR:CARTERRORXMLNETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTQUANTITY </td>

It's not because I've specified a cell width is it?

Myles

[magicalwonders]

Update

O.K. I've taken out the cell width and the word "QTY" is now on the same line as the box. So one down, one to go. If I can only get the box smaller!

Best wishes,

Myles

[NormanRouxel]

Try playing with the SIZE="4" fragment and see what happens.

Or you could amend that parameter to include some inline CSS style.

E.g. for 40 pixels wide:-

%s<INPUT TYPE=text NAME="%s" style="width: 40px" VALUE="%d">

Norman

[magicalwonders]

Thanks Norman,

Excellent advice as always. I reduced the Size "4" fragment to 1 but the box was still coming out a bit longer than I really wanted (four or five digits in length). So I've used the inline CSS style as you've suggested. Opting for 25px has resulted in a box that takes three digits. Spot on!

I've also managed to lose the word "price", but that was much easier to do, using Design/Options/Site Default/ and taking out the word "price" from the product price description.

It seems that I'm getting really close now to the look that I want to achieve.

Thanks to you again and to everyone else who has helped me get this far.

Best wishes,

Myles.