Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: template::list::create adding a class to the <tr>

Mmm, don't know if I understood correctly, but if I did you need to access each row in your template individually, so you can access its data and/or change some visual attributes.

For this you could decide for a nomenclature by which give a different id to each row, then build your list template so it assigns this id to each one of them. For example, you have a list called "invoices", each of your list row could have as id

invoices-row-(id of the record)

or

invoices-row-(num of the row)

This way you could access each one of them just by referring to its id. Of course you can navigate the dom on the fly to find it out, but by id it will be quicker.

Hope it helps

Ok, if this is the case I don't think we need to add nothing in particular to the template::list procs (by this I mean from the data structure point of view). We could accommodate the vanilla templates so that this row id is generated and put in the markup, but for this we already have the necessary bits:
- list id
- elements names
- elements values
- possibility to specify a row key attribute for the list

This won't harm in my opinion and sounds like something useful in general. It will require the slight modification of every adp for displaying template::list currently in the platform (or at least every template building up HTML markup).

If you offer yourself, you could try to propose a patch! 😊