link_to_next
The link_to_next tag can be used as a single tag or a container tag to return the permanent URL of the next article by posting date.
If used as a container tag, the HTML required to output a hyperlink is returned; if used as a single tag, only the URL itself is returned.
attributes
showalways="0" (boolean)
Link to next article using the article title
<txp:link_to_next><txp:next_title /></txp:link_to_next>
Other tags used: next_title
Link to next article using static text
<txp:link_to_next showalways="1">Next</txp:link_to_next>
This will allways display the text “Next”, even when there is no next article.
Note: while showalways will enable this tag to display what is wrapped inside it, next_title returns nothing if there is no next title, so nothing is displayed. Use text or the returned value that you need displayed.
Customizing links
The container tag returns only a very basic link, which doesn’t allow for customizing the link title, or adding a CSS class, etc. Using the tag in its single tag capacity opens up a lot more possibilities.
For example, to give the link an HTML title attribute of the next article’s title, and also apply a class to it:
<a href="<txp:link_to_next />" title="<txp:title />" class="orange"><txp:title /></a>
Other tags used: title