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#1 2011-10-28 03:53:42

maruchan

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From: Ukiah, California

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<txp:older /> inside of <txp:older> issue

Am I doing something wrong here?

<txp:older>
          <div class="nav-link prev">&laquo; <a href="<txp:older />"><txp:text item="older" /></a></div></txp:older>
<txp:newer>
          <div class="nav-link next"><a href="<txp:newer />"><txp:text item="newer" /></a> &raquo;</div>
</txp:newer>

I think everything’s OK, and I got that from the TXP wiki, but it’s generating this markup:

<a href="http://www.friendlyskies.net/?pg=2">
          <div class="nav-link prev">&laquo; 
                <a href="http://www.friendlyskies.net/?pg=2">Older</a>
          </div>
        </a>

…which obviously has an issue and fails W3C validation.

Last edited by maruchan (2011-10-28 03:54:56)

#2 2011-10-28 09:55:21

Gocom

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Re: <txp:older /> inside of <txp:older> issue

maruchan wrote:

Am I doing something wrong here?

You are not doing anything wrong, it’s just that the example in the wiki is incorrect. The older and the newer tags will always output a HTML link when used as a container, and anything wrapped in the tags will be used as the link text. There is no conditional mode as suggested.

Instead you could use variables to power the conditional part i.e.

<!--
	Populate variables named next and prev
-->

<txp:variable name="next" value='<txp:older />' />
<txp:variable name="prev" value='<txp:newer />' />

<!--
	Check if there are older/newer entries
-->

<txp:if_variable name="prev" value="">
	<txp:else />
		<div>
			<a href="<txp:variable name="prev" />">Newer articles</a>
		</div>
</txp:if_variable>

<txp:if_variable name="next" value="">
	<txp:else />
		<div>
			<a href="<txp:variable name="next" />">Older articles</a>
		</div>
</txp:if_variable>

---

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#3 2011-10-28 14:28:32

GugUser

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Re: <txp:older /> inside of <txp:older> issue

Please note the difference between txp:newer or txp:older and txp:link_to_prev or txp:link_to_next.

For <txp:older> the tag references says:

An article list consists of the assigned number of articles set by the article tag. If there are no articles available having older status (articles ranked lower, or later, in the present sort criteria than the present bottom of page article) <txp:older> will not display unless the showalways attribute is set to 1. It is normally seen used in tandem with newer.

#4 2011-10-28 22:39:06

maruchan

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Registered: 2010-06-12

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Re: <txp:older /> inside of <txp:older> issue

Ah, thanks for the info & code. That makes sense.