Jul
As I’m a total fan of alternating row colors that improve usability immensely, I wanted to have these in the TextPattern backend (article listing). The article listing page of TextPattern is built up using table rows (<tr>) which are predestined to be colored with alternating colors. The final HTML-output of a backend page is generated using lots of functions and libraries. But the sourcecode of TextPattern is cleaned up and well structured so it’s just a small change in one PHP-file and the general CSS-file of TextPattern.
In order to do the change, open your TextPattern-folder (you can do it live on your FTP of course but you should backup the file before you edit it) and navigate to the path ‘textpattern/include’. There, you’ll find the file ‘txp_list.php’ which you need to edit. After opening the file in your favorite editor, go to line 195 and add the following two lines (lines 197 and 202).
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include_once txpath.'/publish/taghandlers.php';
$tr_even_odd = "odd";
while ($a = nextRow($rs))
{
if ($tr_even_odd == "odd") { $tr_even_odd = "even"; } else { $tr_even_odd = "odd"; }
extract($a);
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? fInput('checkbox', 'selected[]', $ID)
: ' '
)), ' class="'.$tr_even_odd.'"'
);
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table#list li {
margin: 0 0 2px 0;
}
table#list tr.even {
background-color: #f8f8f8;
}
...That’s it. Of course you can adjust the grey color ‘f8f8f8’ and add more CSS-properties.
