Sparkup Syntax for repeating more than just a single element?

Question

Say I have this:

...
    <li class='tab'><a href="#tabs2-7">7</a></li>
    <li class="tab"><a href="#tab2-8">8</a></li>
...

...and I'd like to use Sparkup in my editor to add another say 6 tabs...so I run the sparkup command:

li.tab > a[href=#tab2-$]{$}*6

but it comes out all wrong,

    <li class="tab"><a href="#tab2-8">8</a></li>
    <li class="tab">
       <a href="#tab2-1">1</a>
       <a href="#tab2-2">2</a>
       <a href="#tab2-3">3</a>
       ...
    </li>

My first thought was that my syntax should have been:

(li.tab > a[href=#tab2-$]{$})*6

But that did pretty much the same thing...except this time it didn't insert the second number:

    <li class="tab"><a href="#tab2-8">8</a></li>
    <li class="tab">
       <a href="#tab2-1">$</a>
       <a href="#tab2-2">$</a>
       <a href="#tab2-3">$</a>
       ...
    </li>

Now the range problem (starting at 9 instead of 1) is just a minor annoyance, but what if I want it to repeat the li as well as the a tag?

And yes, before you go off about it, I am indeed aware that I could create all of this stuff just using a simple for loop; but that wasn't part of the question now was it?

Answer 1

You are almost there:

li.tab*6 > a[href=#tab2-$]{$}

You want to create 6 <li> so that's where you should put your multiplier.

No need to be defensive.