Hi again,

Well, I've been playing around with how to get this into my vent blog. After toying with some variations, I've opted for a "drop slide list" - it's a drop down for picking categories, and then a scroll box for picking the post.

What do people think?

NB: I've set the width to 150px (because that's how wide my sidebar is!) with an inline style. Also, the number of lines in the scroll box is set at 5. Ideally, these parameters should be set by the user in their template - perhaps like the username and anchor variables?

Also, since this one isn't nested, it's in two parts: list_side_tags(); lists the tags (with counts), while write_tagged_posts(); spits out the post descriptions. These can be separated now (though I have them one under the other, you could put them anywhere you like on the page).

Thanks, John, for providing a focal point for code/ideas exchange, and your suggestions about design too - I'll wait to get some more discussion on this one and then look at a new, more flexible, release.

If you want to link to this in its present form, use:

%script type="text/javascript">
del_user = "thetan";
anchor = "vent";
%/script>

%script type="text/javascript" src="http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/tags/drop-slide_list.js">
%/script>

(with your own delicious username and anchor tag!)

Then, put this where you want the tag listing to occur (eg sidebar):

%script type="text/javascript">
list_side_tags();
%/script>

And this where you want to the post titles listed out (eg underneath):

%script type="text/javascript">
write_tagged_posts();
%/script>

(NB: all % should be < above - can't post it properly in comments!)

Thanks once again for the messages of encouragement and ideas - let's keep this ticking along!

Cheers,

-Greg.