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Posted by dorayme on 11/03/07 23:47
In article <Xns99DDA8FA22316arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writing in
> news:doraymeRidThis-079A31.10290604112007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
>
> > In article <Xns99DDA01D8AFBFarbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
> > Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Ciaran <cronoklee@hotmail.com>
> >> writing in
> >> news:1194092263.454782.316970@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I have a very long dynamically generated bulleted list and I'd like
> >> > to make it display in columns rather than down the left and side of
> >> > the page. I know columns aren't available till CSS 3 but I was
> >> > wondering if there's some current cross browser trick or hack that
> >> > might work for me?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers
> >> > Ciarαn
> >> >
> >>
> >> Server side - get the total items and divide by two. Then loop
> >> through and when you reach that amount, end the list and start
> >> another. Float the ul element.
> >
> > When you reach what amount?
> >
>
> For example, say there are 20 items in a table. Run the query, get the
> recordset, and the count of items in the recordset. Put the recordset
> into an array. Close the record set.
>
> total_items = 20
> breaknow = total_items/2
>
> loop though the array until you reach breaknow then end the list and
> start another. If the total is not an even number, then the last list
> will have one extra item.
Suppose there 400 items. Are you proposing a script that is alive
to the browsers window size or just to split lists into groups of
10?
--
dorayme
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