[Zope] count of items in group?

[julian@zereau.net]

On 03-Mar-99 Michael Bernstein wrote:
> julian@zereau.net wrote:
>> 
>> Using the "in" tag's grouping capability, is there any way to get the count
>> of
>> items in that group? I need this so I can have a table with one row per item
>> and a cell rowspanned for all the group's items (eg: related products and
>> their
>> picture).
> 
> Rather than using rowspan, use nested tables. I haven't done this in
> Zope yet, but it was always my solution of choice in ColdFusion. It also
> makes it easier to debug your layout in a WYSIWYG editor. It does, of
> course, bloat your HTML a bit.

It will work, and I'm going to have to in the short term, but I really would
like the multiple columns for each item to line up down the page, without ugly
fixed-width hacks.

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Julian Morrison
Programmer (Zereau Ltd)