Alternating background color for discussion listing [its working now...]

krishnik

Hi,

I'm creating a theme to suit my new site.
Is it possible to assign alternative background color for discussion listing?

I have checked the output in firebug got the following markup
<ol id="Discussions"> <li class="Discussion Read NoNewComments NoReplies Category_2" id="Discussion_2"><ul> <li class="DiscussionType"> <span>Discussion Type</span> </li> <ol/>

How can i add one more custom class to

<li class="Discussion Read NoNewComments NoReplies Category_2" id="Discussion_2">

garymardell

Another option would be to use CSS and have

.Discussion:nth-child(2n) {}
however this will only work in newer browsers not ie6.

Mark

In your plugin (or theme hooks), do this:

public function DiscussionsController_BeforeDiscussionName_Handler($Sender) {
     $CssClass = GetValue('CssClass', $Sender->EventArguments, '');
     $Sender->EventArguments['CssClass'] = $CssClass .= ' SomeNewClass';
}

krishnik

Thank you very much for the reply

I'm new to vanilla. I created a new theme my coping the existing vanilla theme and renaming it. and i have made changes to default css files .

I want to display the listing discussion in alternating color.
Is there a detailed document about creating a new theme from the scratch.

sorry for my poor english...

krishnik

I did the following ..

1.copy and pasted discussion.php in my new theme folder. created mark up for listing discussion.

2.declared a variable and for each discussion the value of the variable keep changing.
ie 1 or 2 .

3. added necessary class in vanilla.css

4.check the value of the variable and determine the class to be used.

And its working.....