I have a list of 16 results, let's call it "results". I want to arrange them in a 4 x 4 table.
Using the django template, how can I do this? (It doesn't seem like cycle would help me here)
<table>
{% for r in results %}
...?
{% endfor %}
</table>
Thanks!!
You can use the cycle tag for this.
<table>
{% for r in results %}
{% cycle '<tr>' '' '' '' %}
<td>{{r.content}}</td>
{% cycle '' '' '' '</tr>' %}
{% endfor %}
</table>
Would output something like...
<table>
<tr>
<td>result 1</td>
<td>result 2</td>
<td>result 3</td>
<td>result 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>result 5</td>
<td>result 6</td>
<td>result 7</td>
<td>result 8</td>
</tr>
<!-- etc -->
</table>
You need to build something like this
<table>
<tr>
<th>header1</th>
<th>header2</th>
<th>header3</th>
<th>header4</th>
</tr>
{% for r in result %}
<tr>
<th> {{ result.name }}</th>
<th> {{ result.address }}</th>
<th> {{ result.time }}</th>
<th> {{ result.date }}</th>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
provided that you have an array (actually, a dictionary) this way
result['name']
result['address']
result['time']
result['date']
return render_to_response("my_template.html", {'result:result'})
There are a number of do this. This is the most straightforward ways. Look at Django template tag documentation.
Here is a list of techniques I learned throughout. There are more, but I don't have time to document all of them. http://binarybugs01.appspot.com/entry/template-iteration-techniques
Sometimes you have to be careful with the context dictionary you are passing to the template. If you are passing this
result = {'name': 'John', 'time': '12/2/2012'....etc}
context['result'] = result
return render_to_response("my_template.html", context}
You are iterating over result.result and the keys are result.result.name
I also want to remind you that you either have a list, a set, a dictionary, or a tuple.You can import array and use it, however.
Suppose you have:
results=[[1, 2, 3, 4,], [5, 6, 7, 8], [9, 10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15, 16]]
The following template can be used to display results in a table:
<table>
{% for rowval in results %}
<tr>
{% for val in rowval %}
<td>{{val}}</td>
{% endfor %}
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
It will display:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
