trying to use a count of children pages to determine the number of columns

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William Corry 34 posts 171 karma points

Jan 11, 2015 @ 21:21

I am using bootstrap 3 and have an element that fits into columns but the number of cselements can vary. I have used .count and some if statements to vary the col width class based upon the number of items but wonder if there is a cleaner way of doing this:

<div class="row">
    @foreach (var icon in icons)
  {
     <div class="col-md-@if (item.Children.Count() == 3) {<text>4</text>}@if (item.Children.Count() == 4) {<text>3</text>}@if (item.Children.Count() == 2) {<text>6</text>}">
            @{
                <div class="icon-header @if (!item.HasValue("bodyText")) {<text>padtop-75</text>}">
                 <div class="icon-effect @Umbraco.GetPreValueAsString(icon.BackgroundColor)">
                        <i class="effect @icon.Icon fa-5x"></i>
                   </div>
                  <header class="process-header">
                     <h3>@icon.Header</h3>
                     @Html.Raw(icon.BodyText)
                  </header>
               </div>
          }
     </div>

    }
</div>

I know I could use Umbraco 7.2 new grid tool for this but have not got time to delve into the finer details of how it all works etc.

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Cimplex 113 posts 576 karma points

Jan 11, 2015 @ 22:33

var count = item.Children.Count();

var cols = 6;

switch (count) {

case 3:

cols = 4;

break;

case 4:

cols = 3;

break;

<div class="col-md-@cols">

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William Corry 34 posts 171 karma points

Jan 12, 2015 @ 00:01

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Thanks but unfortuantely this does not seem to work :(

I get this error:

A switch expression or case label must be a bool, char, string, integral, enum, or corresponding nullable type

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Bjarne Fyrstenborg 1284 posts 4038 karma points MVP 8x c-trib

Jan 12, 2015 @ 01:34

Hi William

Try declare you "count" variable as a int:

int count = item.Children.Count();

int cols = 6;
switch (count) {
    case 3:
        cols = 4;
        break;
    case 4:
        cols = 3;
        break;
    default:
        cols = 6;
        break;
}

/Bjarne

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William Corry 34 posts 171 karma points

Jan 12, 2015 @ 03:43

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Worked a treat thanks

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