Question

I’m trying to get CakePHP’s pagination helper to play nicely with bootstrap. That is, I want my pagination elements to look like bootstrap’s but generated by CakePHP.

At the moment I’ve got this on my view page:

<?php
echo $this->Paginator->numbers(array(
    'before' => '<div class="pagination"><ul>',
    'separator' => '',
    'currentClass' => 'active',
    'tag' => 'li',
    'after' => '</ul></div>'
));
?>

Which produces the following markup:

<div class="pagination">
    <ul>
        <li class="active">1</li>
        <li><a href="/test/posts/page:2">2</a></li>
        <li><a href="/test/posts/page:3">3</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

The problem is, because the active page (1 in this case) doesn’t have an <a> element in the <li> tag, it’s not displaying correctly on the page (see here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/VKRlW.png).

I can’t seem to find anything on the Cookbook that mentions anything that would fix this.

Can this even be fixed?

Answer 1

All you really need to do is add a CSS class for the current and disabled items to match. Here’s one I use for my project (it’s basically copied and pasted from the bootstrap CSS file).

.pagination .current,
.pagination .disabled {
    float: left;
    padding: 0 14px;

    color: #999;
    cursor: default;
    line-height: 34px;
    text-decoration: none;

    border: 1px solid #DDD;
    border-left-width: 0;
}

This gives it the same style as the a tags.