Iterating through ContentArea items

Oliver Billing

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I wanted to iterator (foreach) through the items of a content area and do a Html.propertyFor() on each of them.

Below example is from a link-list

@foreach (PageData questionPage in Model.Links.ToPages())
{
var questPage = questionPage;
<li>
@Html.PropertyFor(x => questPage)
</li>
}

#82303

Mar 10, 2014 14:28

Linus Ekström

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Hi!

The PropertyFor method is a way to render a single property but a Content Area contains a list of links to content items. What are you trying to achieve? Do you want to create links for each item in the Content Area?

#82308

Mar 10, 2014 15:36

Oliver Billing

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I want to render each block in my Content area ( I limit by content area to a specific type)

Since the contentArea is blocks only I should be able to use PropertyFor

#82309

Mar 10, 2014 15:39

valdis

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Try following code:

@{
    var contentLoader = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentLoader>();
    if (page != null && page.ContentArea != null && page.ContentArea.Items.Any())
    {
        foreach (var contentItem in page.ContentArea.Items)
        {
            var item = contentLoader.Get<YOUR_CONTENT_TYPE>(contentItem.ContentLink);
            // output necessary properties from content instance
        }
    }
}

In each iteration variable `item` should point to concrete content type instance in your ContentArea.

#82363

Mar 11, 2014 11:37

gabed123 - Jul 02, 2019 18:25

Does this require a certain directive or assembly reference?

Gayathri Saravanan

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if (CurrentPage.MainContentArea.Items.Any()) 
{ 
  foreach (var c in CurrentPage.MainContentArea.Items) 
   { 
     Response.Write("ContentArea Items" + c.GetContent().Name); 
   } 
}

#84847

Edited, Apr 08, 2014 11:56

Pete

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Valdis Iljuconoks Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for.

#89716

Aug 22, 2014 15:54

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Iterating through ContentArea items