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Snippets

Snippets execute computer code that rewrites the DOM elements in a section of the page (or in some cases on the who page.)

Snippets are invoked via the data-lift attribute on an HTML element. For example:

<div data-lift="ignore">This div will not be displayed</div>

Parameters can be passed to a snippet using URL syntax:

<div data-lift="twitter?user=dpp&rpp=6"></div>

Which will invoke the Twitter snippet and insert a Twitter feed for user app onto the page with the 6 more recent Twitter posts.

Available snippets:

➥ blog.simple -- Display blog posts to fixed template
➥ blog.posts -- Display blog posts
➥ twitter -- Insert a Twitter feed into the page
➥ search -- Insert a search box
➥ if -- Conditionally include DOM element
➥ move_top -- Rearrange the top of the page
➥ head -- Move the block to the <head> second of the page
➥ tail -- Move the block to the bottom of the page
➥ disqus -- insert a Disqus forum
➥ disqus.count -- number of posts for each link
➥ google.map -- Insert a Google Map
➥ htag-list or htag_list -- List all the H-tags on the page
➥ bootstraputil.headcomment -- Insert a comment for Bootstrap
➥ bootstraputil.bodycomment -- Insert a comment for Bootstrap
➥ title -- Set the title of the page to the contents of the DOM node
➥ ignore -- Ignore the block
➥ site.name -- Insert the site name
➥ surround Put a template around the DOM nodes
➥ embed Put a template inside the DOM nodes
➥ a
➥ choose
➥ subs
➥ xmenu
➥ bind
➥ menu.title
➥ menu.items
➥ group
➥ google-analytics or google_analytics
➥ withparam
➥ archived_posts
➥ xform
➥ page-info or page_info or pageinfo

blog.simple -- Display blog posts to fixed template

Just display the most recent 15 blog posts in a fixed template. For example:

<div data-lift="blog.simple"></div>

blog.posts -- Display blog posts

Take all the pages on the site marked as blog posts and bind the information about them into the places in the template.

For example:

<ul data-lift="blog.posts?max=15">
    <li data-post="item">
        <h2><a data-post="link" href="#">Blog Post</a></h2>
    	<h4><span data-post="date">2012/12/14</span></h4>
    	<div data-post="shortcontent">Post Content goes here</div>
    	<div data-post="more"><a href="#">Read More...</a></div>
    </li>
</ul>

Parameter: max -- number of posts

The maximum number of blog posts to display. If omitted, all blog posts are listed.

Bind: data-post="item" -- the DOM to bind a post to

The DOM element that each post will be bound to. For each blog post, an instance of this DOM will be generated.

Bind: data-post="link" -- the DOM put the link information in

The href attribute of this element will be set to the link to the blog post and the body of this element will be set to the title of the blog post.

Bind: data-post="date" -- the date of the blog post

The date of the blog post will be put in the body of this element

Bind: data-post="shortcontent" -- the DOM put the link information in

The short content (about 700 characters) will be placed in the body of this element.

Bind: data-post="more" -- the DOM put the link information in

If the short content was truncated, the DOM node with the data-post="more" attribute will be displayed. Any <a> tag inside the data-post="more" DOM node will have its href attribute set to a link to the blog post.

twitter -- Insert a Twitter feed into the page

Insert a Twitter feed onto the page.

For example:

<div lift-data="twitter?user=dpp></div>

Parameter: user -- The ID of the Twitter user

The ID of the Twitter user for the feed. If not provided, will default to "_telegram".

Parameter: rpp -- number of posts

Number of items to show in the feed. Default = 4.

Parameter: interval -- Update interval

How frequently to update the feed, in milliseconds. Default = 30000.

Parameter: height -- The height of the control on the page

The height of the control on the page. Default = 300.

Parameter: shell-background -- Background color for display shell

Background color for the display shell. Default #bfbfbf

Parameter: shell-color -- Color of the display shell

The color of the display shell. Default #000000

Parameter: tweets-background -- Background color for Tweets

The background color for Tweets. Default #ffffff

Parameter: tweets-color -- Color for Tweets

The text color for Tweets. Default #000000

search -- Insert a search box

Insert a Google search box that will search just this site:

<form data-lift="search" style="float: right"></form>

if -- Conditionally include DOM element

Test an attribute and display the DOM if the attribute or extra info exists and is true.

To test if an attribute exists and it true:

<div data-lift="if?toTest=foobar">
  Yes, foobar is defined!
</div>

To test is Extra Info exists (the value is defined, does not test the value):

<div data-lift="if?extra=author">
  The page has an author: <span data-lift="page_info?name=author">Author name here</span>
</div>

To test is Extra Info exists and the value is true:

<div data-lift="if?extra_true=has_blog">
  <div data-lift="blog.simple"></div>
</div>

To test is Extra Info exists and the value equals another String:

<div data-lift="if?extra_eq=author&value=david+pollak">
  A blog post by David Pollak, yay!
</div>

move_top -- Rearrange the top of the page

Sometimes you want stuff in a part of the page template, but it's part of the main page and you want to re-write the page such that stuff at the top of your content page is moved to a part of the template.

For example, if your template has a page_header <div> like:

<div class="page-header" id="page_header">
  <!-- if you've got a header, put it here -->
</div>

And the top of your content looks like:

<div id="left_side">
<div class="hero-unit">
	<h1><a href="https://twitter.com/dpp">David Pollak</a>'s blog... <small>and such.</small></h1>
	Lots of DPP's thoughts here...
</div>
…
</div>

Or:

<div id="left_side">
<h1>This is my page, dude</h1>
<p>Stuff</p>
</div>

Then move_top will rewrite as such:

<div class="content" data-lift="move_top?from=left_side&to=page_header">
  <div class="page-header" id="page_header">
    <!-- if you've got a header, put it here -->
  </div>
    
  <div id="left_side">
    <h1>This is my page, dude</h1>
    <p>Stuff</p>
  </div>
</div>

To:

<div class="content">
  <div class="page-header" id="page_header">
    <h1>This is my page, dude</h1>
  </div>
    
  <div id="left_side">
    <p>Stuff</p>
  </div>
</div>

move_top looks at the first Element in the from DOM element and if it's a header tag (e.g., <h1>, <h2>, etc.) or it has the CSS class page-header or hero-unit, it will be removed from the from DOM and inserted into the to DOM.

head -- Move the block to the <head> second of the page

Put additional markup in the <head> section of the HTML markup.

Useful to include external resources such as style sheets.

For example:

 <link data-lift="head" rel="stylesheet" href="/css/custom-theme/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css" type="text/css">

tail -- Move the block to the bottom of the page

Put additional markup at the end of the <body> section of the HTML markup.

Useful to put scripts on the bottom of the page so the page loads faster.

For example:

<script data-lift="tail" type="text/javascript">
  alert("The page is loaded");
</script>

disqus -- insert a Disqus forum

Inserts a Disqus forum on the page.

Parameter: shortname -- the name of the forum

For example, in the /templates-hidden/post_include.html add the line:

<span data-lift="xform" data-css="#after-content *">
  <span data-lift="disqus?shortname=dppblog"></span>
</span>
<span data-lift="xform" data-css="#after-content [id]">disqus_thread</span>

The outer xform puts the inner span under the blog post on your page. The inner disqus inserts the correct JavaScript on the page to show the Disqus comments for that page.

The second xform sets the id attribute so you can click through from a comment count link.

disqus.count -- number of posts for each link

For each link to a blog post, list the number of comments near the link.

Parameter: shortname -- the name of the forum

For example, in the /index.md file, include the line:

<span data-lift="disqus.count?shortname=dppblog"></span>

google.map -- Insert a Google Map

Insert a Google Map on the page at the location of the snippet.

For example:

My office is located at:
    
<div data-lift="google.map" data-address="541 8th St, San Francisco, CA">
</div>

Parameter: width -- the width of the display box

Parameter: height -- the height of the display box

Attribute: data-address -- the address to map

htag-list or htag_list -- List all the H-tags on the page

", "render") -> Full(BaseSnippets.hTags),

bootstraputil.headcomment -- Insert a comment for Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap requires some special comments on the page to work nicely with Internet Explorer. Insert the special comment into the <head> section of the page

bootstraputil.bodycomment -- Insert a comment for Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap requires some special comments on the page to work nicely with Internet Explorer. Insert the special comment into the <body> section of the page

title -- Set the title of the page to the contents of the DOM node

Compute the text of the 

<div data-lift="title">Post :: <div data-lift="menu.title">something</div></div>

Becomes:

<title>Post :: Playing with Telegram</title>

And gets placed in the <head> section of the HTML page.

ignore -- Ignore the block

Do not include the HTML in the rendered output. For example:

<div data-lift="ignore">
  I will not be included in the resulting page
</div>

Useful for having a comment in the markup as part of a work-in-progress.

site.name -- Insert the site name

Compute the site name via the site_title Extra Info and insert the value into the contents of the DOM node. For example:

<div data-lift="site.name" class="fruit_bat">Title Goes Here</div>

Becomes:

<div class="fruit_bat">David's Blog</div>

surround Put a template around the DOM nodes

Surrounds the DOM elements with a template. This snippet is generally used to put "stuff" around the main part of the page. The stuff includes menus, FIXME

embed Put a template inside the DOM nodes

Inserts a template into the current page -- FIXME

a

Link to a named page -- FIXME

choose

Choose one or more of the child nodes -- FIXME

subs

Choose pages of a particular type -- FIXME

xmenu

Generate Menus -- FIXME

bind

Generate an id <div> -- FIXME

menu.title

The title of the page -- FIXME

menu.items

A set of menu items -- FIXME

group

Find a group of pages by type -- FIXME

google-analytics or google_analytics

Insert the JavaScript for Google Analytics -- FIXME

withparam

Insert content into surrounding template -- FIXME

archived_posts

List all blog posts and bind to a template by date -- FIXME

xform

After the page is fully rendered, apply a CSS Transformation to the page -- FIXME

page-info or page_info or pageinfo

Insert values from Extra Info into the DOM