creating nested lists of your categories

[bristweb]

apparently isn't possible UGH i thought i had it

[bristweb]

i spent now 5 hours to get this working and no breakthrough. nested lists is like....web design 101. i can't believe its not possible to do. almost EVERY navigation structure today is built using nested lists.

see this site for just a couple examples http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/

it was one thing to find that sub-menus only go one level, but no support for nested lists whatsoever??! Not cool!

Just for clarity, i'm trying to achieve something this rudimentary:

• category1
• category2
  • sub category1
  • sub category2
  • sub category3
• category3
• category4
• category5

of course i realize i could build these by hand, but that isn't a very practical solution...and that is the whole point of using a dynamic website! supporting this should be very easy...just a minor tweak i'm sure.

here is what i envision

<!--START: FRAME_CATEGORY-->
	<ul>
	<!--START: CATEGORIES-->    
    <!--START: CATEGORY_FORMAT-->
		<li> <a href="view_category.asp?cat=CATID">CATEGORY</a>
    		<ul>
    		<!--START: SUB_CATEGORY_FORMAT-->
            	<li> <a href="view_category.asp?cat=CATID">CATEGORY</a></li>
    		<!--END: SUB_CATEGORY_FORMAT--> 
    		</ul>
        </li>
	<!--END: CATEGORY_FORMAT-->              
	<!--END: CATEGORIES-->
    <ul>
<!--END: FRAME_CATEGORY-->

It appears the problem is that the engine reads the entire block within the "CATEGORY_FORMAT" block and renders all of it to html. it doesn't care if some of the code belongs to the "SUB_CATEGORY FORMAT". All that would need to be done is make the "CATEGORY_FORMAT" first check the block if it contains "SUB_CATEGORY_FORMAT" block. if so, then it renders subcats first so that the result is a perfect, nested list.