cycle Tag

Accepts a list of strings as parameters and cycles through each one and outputs it.

Description

Accepts a list of strings as parameters and cycles through each one and outputs it. Each time cycle is called, the next string that was passed in as a parameter is output.

cycle must be used within a for loop.

      {% for i in (1..5) %}
        {% cycle 'apple', 'banana', 'orange' %}
      {% endfor %}
      

apple banana orange apple banana

Uses for cycle include the following:

• Applying odd/even classes to rows in a table.
• Applying a unique class to the last item in each row.

Parameters

group

string If you need to have more than one set of cycles running independently within a template, you can prepend a group name to the beginning of the parameters.

      <ul>
        {% for link in navigation.links %}
          <li class="{% cycle 'links': '', 'last' %}">
            {{ link.title }}
          </li>
        {% endfor %}
      
        {% for category in categories %}
          <li class="{% cycle 'categories': '', '', 'last' %}">
            {{ category.name }}
          </li>
        {% end %}
      </ul>