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lollybob_tt

Mar 18 2004, 01:16 PM

Hi, im trying....and trying and trying to get this to work.

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what im trying to acheive is

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<h3>Year</h3>
<ul>
<li>month 1</li>
<li>month 2</li>
<li>month 3</li>
</ul>

but i'm getting...

<h3>Year</h3>
<ul>

<li>April 2004</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>March 2004</li>

</ul>

can anyone help me to sort this out? Moving the

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just messes up the entire layout.

almuhajabah

Mar 18 2004, 01:23 PM

Anything that you put inside the MTArchiveList container will be repeated for each item in the archive list, that's why it keeps repeating.

Ordinarily, I'd tell you to move the ul tags outside of MTArchive List but I'm not sure what that would do with your ArchiveDateHeader.

Have you considered doing it another way than a list?

lollybob_tt

Mar 18 2004, 01:48 PM

Thanx for the answer... i changed the code to

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It works now , but each month listed has the year after it. i already have the year listed so how can i get rid of the year after each month?

almuhajabah

Mar 18 2004, 03:59 PM

By default the MTArchiveTitle tag includes the year:

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MTArchiveTitle
The ``title'' of this archive page. The value of this variable depends on the archive type:

(snip)

Monthly
The month, in Month YYYY form

I would suggest using the MTArchiveDate tag instead:

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MTArchiveDate
The starting date of this archive period. This only makes sense if you are listing Daily, Weekly, or Monthly archives. This is a standard date tag; see below in Date Tag Formats for information on formatting the date.

That way you can use the date tag formats to only show the month and not the year.

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