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Hey awesome EE community!

Can someone tell me if the following is possible somehow. I’ll try to explain as simply as I can:

I have the following code for a nav item - this one is hardcoded and is simple. The ‘ul’ items float creating 2 rows of 2 ‘li’ items.

<ul>
 <li><a href="http://{path=sponsor/index}">Sponsor Children</a></li> 
 <li><a href="http://{path=what-we-do/projects}">Support Projects</a></li>
 </ul>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://{path=what-we-do/causes}">Educate About Causes</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://{path=what-we-do/solutions}">Empower Solutions</a></li>
 </ul>

My problem is that I want to also do this with a dynamically created nav list that has ‘x’ amount of items - I want to add a ‘ul’ and close ‘ul’ every 2 ‘li’ items as in the above example:

<ul>
 { exp:channel:entries channel="country" dynamic="no"}
     <li><a href="http://{url_title_path=where-we-work/country}">{title}</a></li>
 { /exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

I’ve got no idea if this is possible… could someone let me know if they have ideas.

Cheers,

Anthony

Here is an idea, I haven’t tested it though.

<ul>
 {exp:channel:entries channel="country" dynamic="no"}
  {if count != 1}
   {switch='<ul>|'}
  {/if}
      
  <li><a href="{url_title_path='where-we-work/country'}">{title}</a></li>
      
  {if count != total_results}
   {switch='|</ul>'}
  {/if}
 { /exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

try this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="country" dynamic="no" }
{switch='<ul>| '}

      
  <li>{title}</li>
      
{if count == total_results}
</ul>
{if:else}
   {switch=' |</ul>'}
{/if}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Hi Anthony,

Do either of the above options help you?

Hi John and other posters,

Thanks heaps for your efforts - both ways work perfectly for my situation.

Of course, things never seem to go right. I now need my columns to be lists of 3 items not 2 - and I cannot for the life of me work out how to change your logic to make it work. 2 seems to be easy (now that I can see the way you were thinking it through)... 3 seems to be very difficult…

Any more thoughts?

Thanks again for your replies.

Cheers,

Anthony

Should work if you just add a | inside your switch. Like so:

{switch='<ul>||'} and {switch='||</ul>'}

The amount of clever in this thread made my brain swell!  Anthony- you all squared away now?

Wow… I just learned so much about EE just then…

Thanks guys - it works! - once again proving how amazing this community is 😊

Cheers,

Anthony

Glad things are working for you.. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.