Unique image for link

I’m looking for a way to give each link in a menu a ’companion’ image that can be assigned at the time of page/menu item creation.

I saw a thread a while back that used:

&rowIdPrefix=`item`

Can anybody expand on this as I don’t understand how this can then be applied. I understand that it will, in some way, allow me to assign a unique background image but I can’t work out how.

I would prefer to know if it is possible to have a unique image sit at the side (left or right) of my link text?

I’m a newbie and a mere designer so go easy!

If you add that to the snippet call, then each link will have an ID of "itemx" where x is a unique number (I forget exactly if it’s the document ID or what, but it will be unique). Then in your CSS file, style the links so they have enough padding on the end for the background image to show, then assign each item its background image.

Another way you could do this is to make sure your images are named with the various document’s ID, or alias would also work. Then make up a rowTpl chunk:

Or put the background to the <li> element, whatever you like. There’s probably at least four or five other ways you could work it out between the chunk templates and the CSS.

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 13, 2007, 02:40 PM

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(I forget exactly if it’s the document ID or what, but it will be unique)
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Allow me to quote the wiki on this:
" &rowIdPrefix - (FALSE)
if set, creates a unique id for each item (id is value of rowIdPrefix + docId)"

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Wayfinder

Thanks. I frequently forget my own phone number That’s what computers are good for, they never forget anything.

Thank you Susan - worked a treat - too easy! (when you know how)