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[SOLVED] newbie is going mad about if_section tag
hello forum,
i’ve gone through every piece of documentation about if_section tag, but to no avail. here is my problem:
the following code does not append the desired class to the list-item:
<txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'> class="trail"</txp:if_section>
instead it simply outputs class=“trail” to the frontend together with the active section:
class=“trail” Section
this is my first textpattern project and i’m going mad about this. can you help a newbie please?
regards
Last edited by totoff (2011-04-21 04:38:26)
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Re: [SOLVED] newbie is going mad about if_section tag
Usually you use this in conjunction with txp:section_list and it will output the code on the item in the section list that corresponds to the section currently showing in your browser, e.g.
<txp:section_list wraptag="ul" break=""">
<li<txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'> class="trail"</txp:if_section>><txp:section title="1" link="1" /></li>
</txp:section_list>If you just want to apply the class for a specific section use:
<li<txp:if_section name="my-section-name"> class="trail"</txp:if_section>>...</li>Is that what you meant?
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Re: [SOLVED] newbie is going mad about if_section tag
thanks jakob
i would like to highlight the currently active section in order to style it via css.
however, i have not nested it into <li> tag as in your example. instead i receive the <li> from the break="li" attribute of the section_list tag. may this cause the problem? in other words: do i always have to use the if_section tag inside a list-item?
edit:
here is the whole form i’m working on:
<txp:section_list active_class="active" include_default="0" sections="Projekte, Themen, Profil, Kontakt" wraptag="ul" break="li">
<txp:if_section name="projekte"> class="trail"</txp:if_section>
<txp:section link="1" title="1" />
<txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'>
<txp:article_custom section='<txp:section />' wraptag="ul" break="li">
<txp:if_article_id>›</txp:if_article_id>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</txp:article_custom>
</txp:if_section>
</txp:section_list>
Last edited by totoff (2011-04-20 17:21:12)
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Re: [SOLVED] newbie is going mad about if_section tag
i have not nested it into <li> tag as in your example. instead i receive the <li> from the break=“li” attribute of the section_list tag. may this cause the problem?
Yes, that would be the reason. It doesn’t know that it should be attaching it to the li, so in your code, it probably appends the class after the closing bracket of the <li> which would explain why it will then display on screen. txp:section_list does have an active_class attribute, which you’re using (or trying to use), but according to the docs it only works where the tag is a single tag, i.e. not a container and not with a form, so that doesn’t help in your case either.
If you make wraptag="ul" break="" and include the li in your contained output as I outlined above or as in Example 3 in the docs, it should work as desired.
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Re: [SOLVED] newbie is going mad about if_section tag
good morning jakob,
thank you very much. finally this has solved the problem. i was not aware that txp-tags can be nested in the attribute section of a html-tag! now i (hopefully) have taken a major step forward in my understanding of textpattern.
just to note: you also did nest the txp:section tag as an attribute to the <li> tag in your example. this has led to kind of a breadcrumb navigation. i did not follow this advice but instead made the following code:
<li<txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'> class="trail"</txp:if_section>><txp:section link="1" title="1" /></li>
thanks again, that was very helpfull!
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