UL([ LI(A(l.upper(), _href='#tab'+str(i), **{'_data-toggle':'tab'})) for i,
l in enumerate(list_of_letters_required) ], _class='nav nav-tabs')Only one pairs of curly brackets and the attribute needs to be quoted since it is a key dict finally... Thanks! Richard On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Richard Vézina <[email protected]>wrote: > Great, I thought about it, I should read the book before sorry! > > Richard > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Paolo Caruccio <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Please put the attribute with the hyphen in a dictionary: >> >> UL([ LI(A(l.upper(), _href='#tab1', **{{_data-toggle:'tab'}})) for l >> inlist_of_letters_required >> ], _class='nav nav-tabs') >> >> From web2py book >> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/5#HTML-helpers: >> >> *Instead of a set of unnamed arguments, a helper can also take a single >> list or tuple as its set of components using the * notation and it can take >> a single dictionary as its set of attributes using the *** >> >> For a deep explanation of this error please read >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/ZGI7xZFPx3s/3PMwSnF-k-IJ >> >> Il giorno mercoledì 3 ottobre 2012 18:47:20 UTC+2, Richard ha scritto: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I would generate programmatically a bunch of links with A() helper from >>> controller, but I fall on syntax error because of data-toggle custom >>> bootstrap attribute (new with html5). >>> >>> Ex.: UL([ LI(A(l.upper(), _href='#tab1', *_data-toggle='tab'*)) for l >>> in list_of_letters_required ], _class='nav nav-tabs') >>> >>> Can I pass a arbitrary argument with helpers or should I alter the >>> helper?? >>> >>> Also, since this new html5 feature mean a lot of new attribute all the >>> time what's the plan about that, we can stay behind waiting for new >>> _Attribute get implement all the time... >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Richard >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > --

