I figured it out, thanks to Jeffrey. I appreciated the help, you pointed me in the right direction. What's really cool, is that by forcing me to not split the tags, I ended up with a much cleaner solution. It'll be even cleaner when I fix the hard coded list building :)

(defun people-and-organizations-list () "Creates a list of people and organizations" (web-common::with-html (:section :id "people-and-organization-list" (:a :href *add-organization-url* "Add Organization") (let ((result-list (people-and-organizations-query)) (columns 3)) (loop for i from 0 to (list-length result-list) by 3 do (people-and-organizations-row (list (nth i result-list) (nth (+ 1 i) result-list) (nth (+ 2 i) result-list))))))))

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jeffrey Cunningham < jeffrey@jkcunningham.com> wrote:

** On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:47:32 -0800, Jim Barrows jim.barrows@gmail.com wrote:

I'm pulling records from a database, and I don't know how many I'll have. I need to display them in a 3 by X grid built in CSS. So it needs to look something like: (:div :class "row" (:div :class "span-one-third" "1/3") (:div :class "span-one-third" "1/3") (:div :class "span-one-third" "1/3"))

Since I don't know how many rows are returning, I can't really hard code it like the above example.

I'm new to lisp, so I may just be thinking about this in the wrong way. In Java, opening a tag like this and closing it is a very common pattern. Maybe I'm just thinking too much in Java... -- James A Barrows

Here's one way:

(let ((records '((1 2 3) (4 5 6) (7 8 9)))) (with-html-output (*standard-output* nil :indent 0) (dolist (rec records) (htm (:div :class "row" (dolist (col rec) (htm (:div :class "span-one-third" (str col)))))))))

Jeff Cunningham