Difference between revisions of "How to display field values in columns"

Revision as of 19:47, 19 December 2009

With Multiple Select List and Checkbox custom field types, the fields can have many values. On the listing detail page those values are displayed in the same line separated by bullets.

Example:

Instead of the values being separated by bullets, you can display them as a list in one or more columns.

You will need to modify this theme file:

• /com_jreviews/jreviews/views/themes/default/elements/custom_fields.thtml

Find this line:

<?php echo implode(' &#8226; ',$CustomFields->display($field['name'], $entry));?>

and replace it with this:

<ul><li><?php echo implode('</li><li>',$CustomFields->display($field['name'], $entry));?></li></ul>

If you want to get rid of bullets in front of list elements, add this to the /theme_css/theme.css file:

.fieldValue ul {
	list-style: none;
	padding-left: 0;
	margin-left: 0;
}
 
.fieldValue ul li {
	list-style: none;
}

Field values now look like this:

To display field values in two columns, modify css for the list elements which we added before:

.fieldValue ul li {
	list-style: none;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	width: 45%;
}

Now it looks like this:

To display field values in three columns, decrease the width to around 30%.

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