the_category() wont work!

  • 13Q13

    (@13q13)


    15 years, 5 months ago

    Why won’t the_category() statement work in the following code?

    <div id="style-<?php the_category(); ?>">
blablabla all kind of posts within Politics
</div>

    It drives me nuts. I wanna style the div element according to his category. Something like:

    div#style-Politics {
color: blue;
}

    Any help is appreciated!

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Probably should use get_the_category which returns all the categories on a post so you need to pick which ‘category’ to use.

    <?php
$cats = get_the_category();
if ($cats) {
  foreach($cats as $cat) {
    echo $cat->slug .' or '. $cat->cat_name;
  } //foreach ($cats
//or this which is the first category found
echo $cats[0]->slug;
}

?>
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