Displaying text color in postbit?

[Max Taxable]

Playing around with custom profile fields, installing the ability for users to choose their gender. It works, but I think I want a postbit template conditional for making it display blue if they chose Male, and pink if they chose female.

Right now it displays like this:



Here's the bit from the postbit template, where we're calling this up:

<vb:if condition="$post['field12']"><dt>Gender</dt> <dd>{vb:raw post.field12}</dd></vb:if>

Any ideas? I want it to go more like "if gender =1 then blue and if gender =2 then pink"

[kh99]

I guess you want something like:

<vb:if condition="$post['field12']"><dt>Gender</dt> <dd style="color:<vb:if condition="$post['field12'] == 'Male'">blue<vb:else />pink</vb:if>" >{vb:raw post.field12}</dd></vb:if>

[Max Taxable]

That sure looks like it might work... I will have it tried and let you know.

Thanks Kevin!

[Max Taxable]

"Invalid tag nesting" error.

[kh99]

Yeah, there were a couple of problems with that. I shouldn't even try to post things without testing them first, I don't have a very good record. Anyway, I tried it and posted the fixed code above.

[Max Taxable]

U Da Man, thank you again!

[Max Taxable]

We made the color "HotPink" to get it to stand out more. Nicely done Kevin and again, thank you for the help.

[kh99]

Probably the "right" way to do it would be to change it to set a class based on the gender, then put CSS in additional.css to set the colors (and/or font, size, etc). Also that way you could have different colors per style if you wanted. But if it's doing what you want the way it is, I'd say that's fine.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by kh99

Probably the "right" way to do it would be to change it to set a class based on the gender, then put CSS in additional.css to set the colors (and/or font, size, etc). Also that way you could have different colors per style if you wanted. But if it's doing what you want the way it is, I'd say that's fine.

I thought of that as well, but it was not as simple for the person I'm helping, and very difficult to explain.

This works for what they want, job well done.