To work out what page you are on, you could use a page variable in your querystring, e.g. page=3

The in your xslt you read the page number, and use that to determine which set of results to show, i.e. (defaulting page number to 1 if no querystring value specified):

Note: totally untested code but should get you on the right track!

<xsl:variable name="page">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('page') != ''">
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('page')"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

Then in your loop:

<xsl:if test="position() &gt; ($page-1 * 6) and position &lt;= ($page * 6)>

     <!-- you are on the current page of results - insert your column code here -->
     <xsl:if test="position() == ($page-1 * 6) + 1)">
         <!-- top row -->
     </xsl:if>
     <xsl:if test="position() == ($page * 6)">
         <!-- bottom row -->
     </xsl:if>

</xsl:if>

P.S. I would suggest creating a local variable to store the number of items to display per page, so you can easily update it, e.g.

<xsl:variable name="ITEMS_PER_PAGE" select="6"/>

Then you can update the number of items to display per page with a single update, rather than a global replace :)

thanks, i wanted to make that with client side pagination and not server side. i have some new idea and i need to try it. ifd i will not succeed, i will post here simpler example and maybe my problem will be more clear to you.

thanks.

You can still use the same idea client-side - instead of using a querystring to pass about the current page number, use your jquery. The logic above should still work - you could start a new div every six items and give it an id, e.g. page1, page2, etc. Then your jquery just needs to show/hide the correct divs each time a next/prev button is clicked.

Good luck with it! Look forward to seeing your final solution.

hello,

at the end i managed to solve the problem by using some trick that i saw here in the forum.
after i figured out that i must use modulu to know "where i am" in the grid , the main problem was that i have to open and close DIV's in different positions in the loop, and that cause XSL errors. so i defined variables like this:

<xsl:variable name="documentTypeAlias" select="string('Project')"/>
  <xsl:variable name="numberOfRecords" select="number(count($currentPage/node [@nodeTypeAlias = $documentTypeAlias and string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']))" />
  <xsl:variable name="numberOfRecordsPerRow" select="number(3)"/>
  <xsl:variable name="openDivLeftCol">&lt;div class='column-left'&gt;</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="openDivMidCol">&lt;div class='column-middle'&gt;</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="openDivRightCol">&lt;div class='column-right'&gt;</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="openDivTopRow">&lt;div class='row-top'&gt;</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="openDivBottomRow">&lt;div class='row-bottom'&gt;</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="closeDiv">&lt;/div&gt;</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="openList">&lt;li&gt;</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="closeList">&lt;/li&gt;</xsl:variable>

and use them in the xsl like that:

    <ul>
    <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node [@nodeTypeAlias = $documentTypeAlias and string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
      
        <xsl:if test="position() mod $numberOfRecordsPerRow = 1">          
          <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 0">
              <xsl:value-of select="$closeDiv" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
              <xsl:value-of select="$openDivBottomRow" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
              <xsl:value-of select="$openDivLeftCol" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
            </xsl:when>            
            <xsl:otherwise>
              <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="position() &gt; 1">
                  <xsl:value-of select="$closeDiv" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                  <xsl:if test="position() mod 6 = 1">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$closeList" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$openList" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                  </xsl:if>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                  <xsl:value-of select="$openList" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
                </xsl:otherwise>
              </xsl:choose> 
              <xsl:value-of select="$openDivTopRow" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
              <xsl:value-of select="$openDivLeftCol" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
          </xsl:choose>
          
        </xsl:if>
        <xsl:if test="position() mod $numberOfRecordsPerRow = 2">
          <xsl:value-of select="$openDivMidCol" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>  
        </xsl:if>
        <xsl:if test="position() mod $numberOfRecordsPerRow = 0">
          <xsl:value-of select="$openDivRightCol" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </xsl:if>
        
        <!-- Print the project info -->
        <h3>
          <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
            <xsl:value-of select="./data [@alias = 'projectName']" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
          </a>
        </h3>

      <xsl:value-of select="$closeDiv" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <xsl:value-of select="$closeList" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
    </ul>

thanks

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