Use Lists for Entries and Comments

Mantishead

Posted: 27 November 2008 11:53 AM

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Total Posts: 31

Joined 03-16-2008

I like my blog entries and comments to display as list items so they can be easily styled.

However,

in the following situation:

<ul id="comments_list">
    {exp:comment:entries sort="asc" limit="20"}
        <li>
            {comment}
            <p class="author">By {name} on {comment_date format="%Y %m %d"}</p>
        </li>
        {/exp:comment:entries}
</ul> 

everything works fine if there are comments. However, when there are no comments it results in a set of ul tags with no contents which is an XHTML invalidation.

Obviously there is a if-exists condition but this only evaluates when inside exp:comment:entries.

How can this be tested outside the UL tag in an elegant way?

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Mantishead

Posted: 27 November 2008 12:00 PM

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Grad Student

Total Posts: 31

Joined 03-16-2008

Fixed with…

{if comment_total != 0}
<ul id="comments_list">
    {exp:comment:entries sort="asc" limit="20"}
        <li>
            {comment}
            <p class="author">By {name} on {comment_date format="%Y %m %d"}</p>
        </li>
    {/exp:comment:entries}
</ul>
{/if} 

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