On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bob Wohl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, so there's the blurred line. Jade being so tightly integrated with
> NodeJS, I assumed there would be the two intermingled in the same knowledge
> base/pool. My bad. The part about rendering in Node or Jade is OT I suppose
> as well. I'll go suck on my vacuum cleaner at the electric company. Wow...
>
>
> "How would you write this in Jade? Or, how would you do this in node
> and tell it to render?"
>
> I guess I will go find a Jade email list to help learn best practices from.
>
> Thanks and my apologies,
> Bob

No worries.  We help with node libraries as best we can.  This is the
node users list after all.  I just wasn't sure what you were asking.
Also, I'm not sure if there is a dedicated jade mailing list.  You can
also try #node.js, and #express on freenode irc.


>
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Bob Wohl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> Thats exactly what I am doing and thats exactly what I am posting about.
>>>
>>> Looking at Jade's loop documentation, all it shows is "each" yet I see
>>> people mentioning using for loop iterations yet it is not in the jade
>>> docs. So here I am, asking the question. :)
>>
>> Indeed, but posting a question about jade and html on the node list is
>> like calling up the power company and asking questions about how to
>> use your hoover vacuum.  All vacuums need power, but not all uses of
>> power are for vacuuming.  That's why I asked to clarify.
>>
>> Hopefully someone who's knowledgeable about jade can help.  From the
>> docs, I only see how to iterate over arrays.
>>
>> As far as the specific html and css to use, there are a great many
>> answers to that question and it depends on your front-end architecture
>> and preferences. The easiest is probably to online a style tag into
>> each of your divs and use absolute width and height.  But it's not
>> always the best solution for many reasons.
>>
>>>
>>> B.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> It depends on what you're doing.  If you're writing an http web server
>>>> and want to serve generated html using jade in node, then use jade's
>>>> loop constructs to generate the appropriate html.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Bob Wohl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm new to Jade and NodeJs but have been able to wiggle some
>>>>> interaction. So far it doesn't seem to tough but I still lack the know
>>>>> how on a lot of this stuff. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm attempting to create a grid via values set by user input using
>>>>> jade. I have values of height and width (4x4 for example) which I am
>>>>> attempting to draw via a for loop, something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> for (var i = 0; i < theheight; i++){
>>>>>    for(var j = 0; j < thewidth; j++){
>>>>>        //draw divs and possition
>>>>>    }
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> How would you write this in Jade? Or, how would you do this in node
>>>>> and tell it to render? I still need to style/position/etc each one of
>>>>> these. What is the best way to do this?
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be cool if there was some sort of OOP to it where I can
>>>>> create each div as its own display object with properties but I'm
>>>>> probably asking for a bit much there. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance and sorry if this is super noob.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
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