Is There a Macro for Returning a File Type's Icon?

[Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]]

Is there a macro for returning the icon specific to a file's type?

For instance, I notice the attachments macro shows an "MS Excel" icon when an "xls" is attached and an "Adobe Acrobat" icon when a "pdf" is attached. What does that macro use to figure out which icon to display?

[David at David Simpson Apps · Accepted solution]

You could just use CSS to achieve this e.g.

a[href$='.pdf'] {
    display:inline-block;
    padding-left:20px;
    line-height:18px;
    background:transparent url(/path/to/pdf-icon.png) center left no-repeat;
}

...read more.

[Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]]

Sweet! I just added the styling to my user macro and it worked nicely!

<style type="text/css">
a[href$='.pdf'] {
    display:inline-block;
    padding-left:20px;
    line-height:18px;
    background:transparent url(.../confluence/images/icons/attachments/pdf.gif) center left no-repeat;
}
</style>

[Remo Siegwart]

If you are using a user macro and have an $attachment variable available, you could just insert the following line to automatically display the appropriate icon depending on the content type of the attachment:

#parse ("/pages/includes/attachment_icon.vm")

Otherwise you could create a user macro with either one of the following lines:

<span class="icon icon-file-pdf" title="$action.getText("pdf.file")">$action.getText("pdf.file")</span>

<span class="icon icon-file-image" title="$action.getText("jpeg.file")">$action.getText("jpeg.file")</span>

<span class="icon icon-file-excel" title="$action.getText("excel.file")">$action.getText("excel.file")</span>

...

Hope this helps

[Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]]

Very cool! I'm actually looping through a page's attachment list and this works pretty nicely when used for each loop iteration.

#foreach( $attachment in $attachmentsList )
  #parse ("/pages/includes/attachment_icon.vm")
#end