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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Using loop.count instead of loop.index makes that code a little simpler (loop.count is always loop.index + 1).

    [% FOREACH object = domain.raObject %] <tr [% IF not (loop.count % 3) %]bgcolor="#EEEEEE"[% END %]>

    Also, I'd tend to do something like this with classes and stylesheets as it makes it easier to change in the future.

    [% FOREACH object = domain.raObject %] <tr class="row_style_[% loop.count % 3 %]">

    You can then define three (or less) styles called "row_style_0", "row_style_1

    • I prefer to do that sort of fiddling in JavaScript, all though it's all much of a muchness. There's a good article [alistapart.com] on how to do stripey tables. Again, I prefer class names to the technique described, but it's a small change.

      -Dom

      • Javascript? If Javascript is the answer, you asked the wrong question!
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        • Randal L. Schwartz
        • Stonehenge
        • I beg to differ. JavaScript shares a lot in common with Perl, not least the fact that it has a very bad reputation due to people writing very bad things with it. :-)

          JavaScript is a pleasant language, fairly small with a regular syntax and quite object oriented. It's got closures and objects and garbage collection and exceptions and all the things that you expect from a modern dynamic language. It's worth a second look if all you've ever done is bitch at badly written sites that use it...

          -Dom

          • That may all be fine, but you forget that more people have Javascript turned off today than ever before (including turned off by corporate mandate), and that javascript has variant behaviors on different browsers, and that some people don't even have the option of turning javascript on because their corporate or school gateway filters it out.

            You must design your website so that it can function without Javascript (although possibly degraded).

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            • Randal L. Schwartz
            • Stonehenge
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