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Hi there,

I’m outputting an alphabetical list of entries (football clubs), but want the most recent 6 entries to have an extra class so that I can style them differently and users know that they’re new.

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how I could achieve this using native EE functionality?

Many thanks,
Jonathan

Hey Jonathan,

You’ll want to use the count variable with a conditional statement. So in this case:

class="some-class{if count <= 6}-special-class{/if}"

You may also find the total_results variable useful for identifying the last item in your list:

{if count == total_results}
This is the last item
{/if}

And similarly for the first item:

{if count == 1}
This is the first item
{/if}

Hope this helps 😊

Oops, sorry, I didn’t read your post thoroughly enough! I suspect you might need to do something special here. There’s possibly a more elegant way to do this but you could use an embedded template to pass in the IDs of the 6 most recent entries. So in your main template you would have something like:

{embed=shared/my_list {exp:channel:entries channel="your_channel" limit="6" dynamic="no" orderby="date" sort="desc"}entry_id_{count}="{entry_id}"{/exp:channel:entries}}

Then in the “shared/my_list” template:

<ul>
{exp:channel:entries channel="your_channel" dynamic="no" orderby="title" sort="asc"}
<li class="some-class{if embed:entry_id_1 == entry_id OR embed:entry_id_2 == entry_id OR embed:entry_id_3 == entry_id OR embed:entry_id_4 == entry_id OR embed:entry_id_5 == entry_id OR embed:entry_id_6 == entry_id} special-class{/if}">{title}</li>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</ul>

Like I say, I doubt this is the most graceful or efficient idea but unfortunately I don’t have time just now to give it some real proper thought 😊

either way, hope it helps!

Jonathon,

Does the solution that Designbyfront posted work for you? I would also suggest something similar to that.

Sean

Hi guys,

Thanks for your responses. Apologies for the delay - I got caught up in another issue. I’m going to give that a go now and let you know asap.

Cheers!

That worked perfectly - thanks Designbyfront!

No worries! Glad it helped 😊

Awesome, glad you got it all working. I’m going to close out this thread, but feel free to post again when you have more questions.

Sean