Hi Siw,

If you are using xsl you can just use the position() in the for-each loop like this:

Another way might be to use CSS to style up your table: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/evenodd.

Hope that helps,

Sascha

Hi Sascha,

You seem to have a suggestion for xslt that did not show up in your response.

But I tried the CSS tip and it works wondrously - in all browsers except IE 7 and 8.

I cannot believe they don't support that CSS markup at all, do you know if there is some trick to it in IE?
If this actually doesn't work in IE I need another solution.

P.S. I always keep my css markup in a separate stylesheet. 

Hi Siw,

ups, just found out here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(VS.85).aspx) that nth-child won't work with IE, bugger, didn't know that...

You could try it out with jQuery: http://blog.darkhax.com/2010/01/17/making-nth-child-work-everywhere.

Very odd my xslt code didn't come through, anyway here it is:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/*">

  <li>

    <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">

      <!-- apply some class here -->

    </xsl:if>

    <!-- display the item -->

  </li>

</xsl:if>

Hope that helps,

Sascha

Hi Sascha,

I really appreciate fast responses :-)

Your xslt is exactly what I tried to use, but you can't do a for-each on data fields within a node, can you?

In my case a document type called Destination has like 15 string fields. These are to be outputted in a simple table, one field per row, if they contain text.

I have seen another solution wich uses an index parameter to a secondary xsl:template in order to achieve counter behaviour. But I have to treat my fields in if-tags, so I would need a separate secondary template for each field in order to make it work.

I'll have a look at your Jquery example.

Why would you not be able to do a for-each on data nodes (I'm assuming that you are using umbraco 4.0.x and not 4.5)?

You should be able to get just the fields with data in them like this:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/data [. != '']">

Then the position() mod 2 would work on the fileds with data.

Dear Morten,

My xsl knowledge is sadly faulty. Your suggestion is perfect. Thanks a bunch and have a nice day! 

EDIT:

Mortens suggestion solved my problem.

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