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title: Style Drupal 6's Taxonomy Lists with PHP, CSS and jQuery
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date: 2010-04-05
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excerpt: Getting started with Drupal theming by styling Drupal’s taxonomy lists.
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tags:
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- drupal-6
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- drupal-planet
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- drupal-theming
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- taxonomy
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---
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Whilst developing this, and other Drupal websites for clients, I decided that I
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wanted to categorise content using the taxonomy system. However, I wasn't happy
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with the way that Drupal displayed the terms lists by default, and I started
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comparing this to other websites that I look at.
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To start with, I wanted to have something that described what the list was
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displaying - like in the second example above. I wanted to have the words
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'Posted in' displayed before the list of terms. To do this, I had to edit the
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node template file that exists within my theme folder (sites/all/themes). As I
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only wanted this change to affect my Blog posts, the file that I needed to
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change is **node-blog.tpl.php**
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I scrolled down until I found the piece of code that displayed the terms list:
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```language-php
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<?php if ($terms): ?>
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<div class="terms terms-inline">
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<?php print t('Posted in') . $terms; ?>
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</div>
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<?php endif; ?>
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```
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Adding `print t(' Posted in ')` will print the words 'Posted in' before
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outputing the terms.
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I then added some CSS to re-size the spacing between the items, and then add the
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commas between them to seperate them:
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```language-css
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.terms ul.links li {
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margin-right: 1px;
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padding: 0;
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}
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.terms ul.links li:after {
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content: ",";
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}
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.terms ul.links li.last:after {
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content: ".";
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}
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```
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I created a file named **script.js** in my theme folder with the following code
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in it. After clearing Drupal's caches, this file is automatically recognised by
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Drupal 6.
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```language-js
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if (Drupal.jsEnabled) {
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$(document).ready(function() {
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$('.terms ul.links li.last').prev().addClass('test');
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})
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}
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```
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This code finds the last item in the list, uses **.prev** to select the one
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before it, and then uses **.addClass** to assign it the HTML class of "test". We
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can then use this class to target it with specific CSS.
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```language-css
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.terms ul.links li.test:after {
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content: " and";
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}
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```
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