By WillieBHines on

taxonomy/term is amazing! Very very powerful.

What's the best way to get it to list in zebra stripes? The contemplate module is letting me format the teaser views of all my CCK modules beautifully, but I can't find a way to get the taxonomy/term view to be striped.

I read the Views themeing documentation, and for the teaser view themes, it tells you to theme the teaser version in the node-TYPE.tpl.php file. Contemplate has taken care of that for me -- but I can't see a way to set "even" or "odd" as the view is generated so I can CSS some striping in there.

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nevets commented

You will currently have a file node.tpl.php and/or node-type.tpl.php files that look something like

  <div class="node<?php if ($sticky) { print " sticky"; } ?><?php if ($teaser) { print " teaser"; } ?><?php if (!$status) { print " node-unpublished"; } ?>">
    <?php if ($picture) {
      print $picture;
    }?>
    <?php if ($page == 0) { ?><?php print theme('event_tag', $node); ?><h2 class="title"><a href="<?php print $node_url?>"><?php print $title?></a></h2><?php }; ?>
    <span class="submitted"><?php print $submitted?></span>
    <span class="taxonomy"><?php print $terms?></span>
    <div class="content"><?php print $content?></div>
    <?php if ($links) { ?><div class="links">&raquo; <?php print $links?></div><?php }; ?>
  </div>

Which can be changed like this

  <div class="node<?php if ($sticky) { print " sticky"; } ?><?php if ($teaser) { print " teaser"; } ?><?php if (!$status) { print " node-unpublished"; } ?>">
  <div class="<?php $zebra ?>">
    ... Rest of original file (less the trailing div)
  </div>
  </div>

Now you can use css rules like

.node .even {
  // Whatever
}
// and
.node odd {
  // Whatever
}

Note that will you code add $zebra to the div that surrounds the complete node (and includes the class node) you could not then tell the even/odd was part of a node.

WillieBHines’s picture

WillieBHines commented

But where can I put some code to switch $zebra from 'even' to 'odd' and back? That's the trick I can't figure. For a TEASER view, I'm not able to create a theming function -- right?

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

$zebra should already be set in node.tpl.php (there is already code in the phptemplate engine to do this). Also node.tpl.php covers both the teaser and full view.

WillieBHines’s picture

WillieBHines commented

I didn't know that! $zebra is set! Cool! Thank you!

shirlgirl’s picture

shirlgirl commented

Please help! I tried the steps above and I still am not getting anywhere! I have changed the node.tpl.php as nevets suggested; however, I am very unfamiliar with .css rules, so I think that is where I am getting stuck. Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!

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texas-bronius commented

Is there a reason $zebra (or, rather, $vars['stripe'] from template.php snippet generated by Views theme wizard) is not applied directly to the containing li (and by default, to be used in css if needed and ignored if not)? It would save having to wrap one more div in the node or views-list-xxx_list.tpl.php, wouldn't it?

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danielb’s picture

danielb commented

mate, wheres taxonomy-term.tpl.php ? lol...

nvoyageur’s picture

nvoyageur commented

It should be
print $zebra;

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ncameron commented

wow!! +1 at how very useful $zebra is for interesting layouts!

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