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Hello All,

I’m working with the Entries tag, and would like it to display 3 cells per row. I currently have the following code, and can’t seem to figure out how to make the code be “smart enough” to know when 3 cells are displayed stop the tag and go to a new row… is this possible?

<table width="670" border="0">
  <tr>
{exp:channel:entries channel="media_video" orderby="date" sort="asc"}
<td width="225px">

 <a href="http://{url_title_path=%27media/video%27}" class="video">_  [url=http://media.amityboattours.com/video/{if]http://media.amityboattours.com/video/{if</a> video_hd ==
 [/url]
 


 <a href="http://{url_title_path=%27media/video%27}" class="video">_ <strong>{title}</strong>_ </a>  

 

 <a href="http://{path=/contribute/{url_title}}">Comments ({comment_total})</a> {if video_exclusive =="Yes"} | Exclusive Video{/if}
</td>
{/exp:channel:entries}
  </tr>
</table>

You can do this with the “count” variable something like this…

{if count == 3}
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
{/if}

That’s just the general idea, I didn’t look too closely at your example. “count” is increased for each entry found by the channel tag.

- Bob.

Moving the “tr” inside the channel:entries tag will give you one row for each entry in your channel…

<table width="670" border="0">
{exp:channel:entries channel="media_video" orderby="date" sort="asc"}
  <tr>
<td width="225px">

 <a href="http://{url_title_path=%27media/video%27}" class="video">_  [url=http://media.amityboattours.com/video/{if]http://media.amityboattours.com/video/{if</a> video_hd ==
 [/url]
 


 <a href="http://{url_title_path=%27media/video%27}" class="video">_ <strong>{title}</strong>_ </a>  

 

 <a href="http://{path=/contribute/{url_title}}">Comments ({comment_total})</a> {if video_exclusive =="Yes"} | Exclusive Video{/if}
</td>
  </tr>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</table>

Was that what you wanted to do?

- Bob

For some reason now it’s only showing one of the posts at a time… I’m new to this so would you be able to help me piece this together?

Make sure you set the “dynamic” parameter for what you want. If dynamic is set to “yes” it will only display entries based on the url_title in the page url. If you have it set to “no” then it will list all entries without regard to what page you’re on. I think the default is “yes” for the dynamic parameter. Check the dynamic parameter in the User Guide if you need a better explanation.

- Bob.

{exp:channel:entries channel="media_video" orderby="date" sort="asc" dynamic="no"}

No, I want it to be 3 across and as many down as necessary… I just need it to auto generate the </td> after the third entry

I figured it out, after the entire code, I added:

{if count >= 3}
</tr>
{/if}

Alright, I take that back, it worked now for the first row of the table.

To be clear, what I’m trying to accomplish is having a table split into three cells (each entry per 1 cell), each row will have 3 cells, so on and so forth.

Here’s the code:

<h2>Video Gallery</h2><p><a href="http://{url_title_path=%27media/video%27}%22name=%22video%22&gt&lt/a&gt&lttable" class="video">_  [url=http://site/video/{if]http://site/video/{if</a> video_hd ==<br />
 [/url]<br />
 </p>

<p><br />
 <a href="http://{url_title_path=%27media/video%27}" class="video">_ <strong>{title}</strong>_ </a>  </p>

<p> </p>

<p> <a href="http://{path=/contribute/{url_title}}">Comments ({comment_total})</a> {if video_exclusive =="Yes"} | Exclusive Video{/if}<br />
</td></p>

<p>{if count >= 3}<br />
</tr><br />
{/if} </p>

<p>{/exp:channel:entries}<br />
  </tr><br />
</table>

The first three entries are working perfectly, then when the fourth on is added it just keeps adding the </tr> from the conditional. Help! 😊