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Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
I’m sure this is dumb easy, I can’t get my mind around it.
Let’s say you work with html lists. If you open a list with txp:if_different, how to close it outside the conditionnal ?
Example (form an article form):
<code>
<txp:if_different>
<li><txp:category1 title=1 />
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</li>
</code>
On line 3, we open a ul tag, that need to be closed but only if it was open.
Hmmmm, ‘thinking while I’m typing. How 4.x handle nested form ?
Last edited by Jeremie (2005-12-05 16:26:35)
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Put the “ul” tags around the call to the form in your page template.
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#3 2005-12-05 22:39:47
- els
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Just thinking out loud…
<code>
<txp:if_different>
<li><txp:category1 title=1 />
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</li>
<txp:if_different>
<span><txp:category1 /></span></ul></li>
</txp:if_different>
</code>
and set the span to display:none?
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#4 2005-12-06 01:31:15
- Mary
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Or maybe put it within an html comment?
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
How about this:-
<code>
<txp:if_different>
</ul>
<li><txp:category1 title=1 />
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</li></code>
<br />
Then surround the tag in the page template with <code><ul></ul></code>. The only problem with this is that you get an empty <code><ul></ul></code> at the top which isn’t very semantic.
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
You want to be mean to my code :(
I’m trying to do something somewhat clean if possible…
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Ha haa. Well you could always put the “li” tags in after the first “ul” in the page template and use it for a title or something. I’m just trying to keep it simple here. ;)
In fact you would be able to give that top “ul” and “li” their own class so you could style them nicely. :)
Last edited by thebombsite (2005-12-06 09:27:48)
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Well, to explain I’m trying to do a sitemap.
So basically it’s structured like this :
- A section
- A category
- an article of that category
- an article of that category
- an article of that category
- Another category
- an article of that category
- an article of that category
- A category
- Another section
- A category
- an article of that category
- an article of that category
- an article of that category
- Another category
- an article of that category
- an article of that category
- A category
- Again another section
- A special link (like a forum
- a sub special link
- a sub special link
etc.
The thing is, with nested lists, I can’t get to see how to use the if_different tag to handle breaking the article sorting of a section into categories.
Edit: Ok there’s a nice bug with the forum’s Textile API. Section are level 1 of the arbo, categories are level 2, articles are level 3.
Last edited by Jeremie (2005-12-06 14:04:26)
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Well you would need 2 “if_different” blocks for that, one for the sections and the second for the categories followed by the article listing so :-
<code>
<txp:if_different>
<li><h3><txp:section title=“1” /></h3>
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<txp:if_different>
<li><h4><txp:category1 title=“1” /></h4>
<ul>
</txp:if_different>
<li><h5><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink></h5></li></code>
<br />
But that’s going to leave a load of open “ul” and “li” tags at the end and you don’t know in advance how many it will be do you? Does it have to be a list? You could argue that they are all titles and use the “h” tags that I’ve put in without the ul/li tags. It could be styled to look like a list that way.
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#10 2005-12-06 16:53:50
- els
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Couldn’t you use <txp:if_first_article> and <txp:if_last_article> for the opening and closing ul tags?
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Stuart, right now I only use one form per section. Aka I build the list by hand for each section, calling a txp:article_custom by hand. When I got that, it will always time to do something more elegant :)
And yep I have tried to move the sections and categories to headers tags, but that doesn’t solve the opening/closing ul problem.
Doggiez… well that’s a tought. I think I will try it.
Last edited by Jeremie (2005-12-06 18:24:45)
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Re: Opening a tag with txp:if_different, how to close it ?
Well my sitemap is an article and done completely manually. It does use lists though. ;) I don’t think I could do it this way. Sometimes I’m pointing at an article and sometimes at a section. It doesn’t follow any logic that the “if_different” tag could pick up on. I do use it for both of my archives though. It is very useful.
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