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section list sort order
I’m looking at the docs regarding the sort="" attribute for section list, and the value options don’t make any sense to me as written. I’ve tried a couple guesses, but I don’t get a order I need. So I’m wondering…
- Maybe someone can put a parenthetical note after each attribute option and explain what the sort behavior is supposed to be when using it.
- Is it possible to have a
custom_orderattribute where you can list the order you want by section name? For example…
<section::list custom_order="default, pears, bananas, kiwis, etc"> ...
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Re: section list sort order
Never mind, just realized I can do that with regular HTML. ;)
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Re: section list sort order
lol
sections="section name(s)" (displays in specified order)
I need to read better.
Still goes for the notes on the sort attribute options, though. ;)
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I’ve added a few notes in parentheses. Some of the sort options really are quite pointless though.
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Re: section list sort order
Bloke wrote #311107:
Some of the sort options really are quite pointless though.
Agreed. Old man Nielsen’s industry monitoring would tell us the order is best made by considering conventions (e.g. ‘home’ first, ‘contact’ last, if you use them) and front-loading the primary content sections (relative to language direction).
Thus, these are the only useful attributes regarding the section list composition, which gives full custom control:
include_default="boolean"default_title="text"sections="section name(s)"exclude="section name(s)"
I know I will never use sort="". Only the default by “name” is functionally useful, I guess.
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