Ordering objects in a Category

[stinoga]

Ordering objects in a Category

[aflanagan]

Hmm...reverse alphabetical order? That's surprising, the default should be alphabetical based on the name you give each component.

As of now there is no standardized way to override the order. There was one section of a guide I made where I had to control the order a little differently. I hacked it by prepending a number to each name (e.g. 1_button_sizes) to have better control. Not great, but works for small sections.

[stinoga]

Thanks @aflanagan. Just curious, what would you see as the best way to accomplish ordering? A name/value pair in the YAML comments?

[jdcantrell]

We currently do it this way:

/*doc
---
title: Buttons
name: 00_button
category: Base CSS
---

if you remove the numbers on the name it should order alphabetically. If you leave the numbers then you can manually order your components by setting the numbers to different values.

[aflanagan]

Yeah, I think that is just as easy (or easier) than adding an optional sort key to the yaml config block. What do you guys think?

[stinoga]

I'm cool with that. I'll close this out. Thanks gents!

[VinSpee]

Running into this as well. Ordinal naming can become a pain for maintenance. I'd love to have it at least respect import order:

@import elements/buttons/buttons
@import elements/buttons/base-button
@import elements/buttons/minor-button
@import elements/buttons/save-button
@import elements/buttons/close-button
@import elements/forms/input-labels
@import elements/forms/text-inputs
@import elements/forms/radio-inputs
@import elements/forms/checkbox-inputs

would output in the same order, ideally.

[jdcantrell]

@VinSpee you should be able to get that ordering by default if you run hologram on your generated css instead of the sass files. I think in that case you would want to avoid using the name attr (which might mean you have to use the git version of hologram until the next gem update)

[VinSpee]

Since I use sass-style (//comment) comments, I’m pretty sure that’s a no-go, as they’re stripped from output.

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On May 1, 2014 at 2:22:54 PM, JD Cantrell ([email protected]) wrote:

@VinSpee you should be able to get that ordering by default if you run hologram on your generated css instead of the sass files. I think in that case you would want to avoid using the name attr (which might mean you have to use the git version of hologram until the next gem update)

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