Test elements to see if they are first-child or second-child with PHP

Asked Mar 16 '14 at 22:46

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If I had this markup:

<div class="some-class">
    <a href="#">Link 1</a>
    <a href="#">Link 2</a>
</div>

would it be possible to test, with PHP, if each of the links are the first or second-childs and then assign them classes based on that? I've been looking into the PHP DOMElement class but I'm not good enough at PHP to put it into practice.

Thanks for any help :)

asked Mar 16 '14 at 22:46

Tom Oakley

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You may be better off using CSS nth child. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-child – vascowhite Mar 16 '14 at 22:49
it would be much easier to use PHP in respect to what I'm working on, which is why I asked if it's possible to use PHP to do this... – Tom Oakley Mar 16 '14 at 22:56
Why don't you use the CSS or JS for this? Edit: Just saw your comment. – Andrew Surdu Mar 16 '14 at 22:57
Maybe this will help then. http://stackoverflow.com/a/4008925/212940 – vascowhite Mar 16 '14 at 23:01
@vascowhite thanks, I'll take a look into that :) – Tom Oakley Mar 16 '14 at 23:02

Test elements to see if they are first-child or second-child with PHP

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