Hi,

I’m trying to show a certain div class on the third weblog entry I"m displaying but it doesn’t seem to be working.  Any ideas?  Here is the template:

Thanks

Moderator’s note: Moved to Howto.

Your conditional seems a bit off.  Try this one:

<div {if count != 3} class="common-col" {if:else} class="common-col-last" {/if}>

Why is yours not working?  First, don’t use quotes around the number inside the if test--i.e. don’t do “3”.  It’s probably borking up the parser with all those double quotes.  Second, the way you wrote it, on the third pass through you are getting result like this :
<div class="common-col common-col-last"> which is probably not what you want. 

My version should work.  Hope this helps!

Great.  Thanks

I think even easier would be to use the {switch} variable in this case wouldn’t it? As you are limiting the weblog tag to just three entries by hard-coding the limit="” parameter then you could use the switch variable to do what you need a little easier :

Untested but pretty sure that should work. Don’t know if that helps at all?

Best wishes,

Mark

So that means that the first two entries will have the class common-col and the third will have common-col-last?

Thats’s cool.

Thanks Mark.

Pretty sure it should work, yes.

Perhaps give it a try and let me know?

Best wishes,

Mark

Yeah, I’d thought of that--using switch.  Thing is, every third entry will have that, (mitigated by using the limit of three, I know).  My way just did the third entry only, not every third entry. 

It’s an interesting design question, I suppose.  I wonder which is faster.

Well yes you are quite right and I did mention that this will only really work because the weblog tag has the limit="3” parameter on it. Not really sure which is faster though. Probably both the same I would imagine as we are still spitting out the three entries regardless.

Not too sure though so maybe an admin can let us know on that one but yes you are right that your way will work great too.

Another way is by doing this :

Ever so slightly easier to read but that’s really down to the individual.

Best wishes,

Mark

Actually I was a bit tired when I wrote that code above and it could probably be done even easier / better so that you don’t ever have to specify the number on which to place the last style.

Something like this instead :

This has the added greatness that you can change the limit parameter to whatever value you like and the html code will update in conjunction with it.

Sorry! Should have thought a bit harder before posting that one but my excuse is that I was tired. Still tired now as we just had two cars crash outside our house at a very dangerous junction. Luckily no-one is hurt but two cars completely written off and Police sirens going off everywhere! Sleep pattern now definitely completely wrecked!

Best wishes,

Mark