List children of current category

Okay, I figured it out. This will give me a list of the child categories, no matter what the parent is.

<?php
$cat_object = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
$parentcat = ($cat_object->category_parent) ? $cat_object->category_parent : $cat;
wp_list_categories("child_of=$parentcat&title_li=");
?>

Many thanks to muskote whose code I adapted and modified to use wp_list_categories. (I’ve also set it to avoid printing the ‘title line’ so that if the category has no subcategory, this code will not return the phrase ‘no categories’. Since I’m using it in the main archive.php template, I needed this.

Thank you very much for the code. I’ve been searching the codex and forum for several hours now for a way to find the current category when viewing the archive. But I am stomped that there isn’t a more simple way to do this.

Great, thanks for the code.

I don’t suppose you know how to add the subcategory description to that code so that they are displayed alongside each subcategory title?