i use loops to display the category list for some reason, but anyway, how is it possible to display something from loops in 2 columns?

Have a look at the following thread. It's not exactly what you want, but can easily change it to always display two columns (basically just replace

my @new_col_at = qw/5 10 20/;

with

my @new_col_at = qw/0/;

(or maybe it should be 1, instead of 0, you have to test this).

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...rum.cgi?post=212197;

Ivan
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I use this for 2 cols....


Thats from one of my own scripts so you'd need to change the tag names but apart from that it should work.

Paul, have you ever had any problems with not closing the <td> spare <td> tag ... i am just worried about ending up with

<table>
<tr>
<td>something</td>
<td>something else</td>
<td>one more</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>something else</td>
</tr></table>

not the best html out there ... and it likely to cause problems if you start bgcoloring the table cells ...

any ideas?
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If you look here...

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=200916;search_string=columns;#200916

I've posted a solution to display an infinate number of links in columns. It properly formats the empty table cells also to avoid it jumping around.

r.

Clever, thanks :)
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Hi,
Saw this post and think that you people might have a solution for my requirement...
Its similar just that i want the categories to be listed like this:
A B C D
E F G H
I J K L

I'am using category_loop but it just lists the categories in a single line.....
How do i alter the category_loop code which i have embedded in the template:

<%loop category_loop%>
<tr><td class="specLst"> &#149 <a href="/car-rentals/<%category_file_name($Short_Name)%>.html"><%Short_Name%></a></td></tr>
<%endloop%>

i do not have variables like row_num and cat_nums available as well donno why but they were not listed when i used the tag <%GT::Template::dump%> in the template, just need to write simple logic to manipulate trs and tds.
Can i do that ?


Kamal

Hi,

Try using row_num, etc. and see what happens. They are special tags that don't show up in the tag dump.