JavaScript - Wrap every 3 items from an array to a div

Question

I have an array consists 50 items.

I want to wrap every 3 items to a <div>.

I'm cracking my head trying to achieve this but I can't get it to work


var cards = [];

for(var i=0; i < 50; i++){
    cards.push('<div class="card-item">Test</div>');
}

for(var i = 0; i < cards.length; i++){
    if(i % 3 === 0){
        let slides = populateSlide(cards[i]);
        console.log(slides);
    }
}

populateSlide = (cards) => {
    return `<div class="carousel-item item">${cards}</div>`;
}

Using the code above, I only managed to get a single item in every multiply of 3. Hence my div only has single item instead of three.

Thanks in advance.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '20 at 08:35

You can store the cards in a temporary array and check its length. Something like:

{
  const populateSlide = cards => {
      console.log(cards)
  }
  const cards = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
  let cardsTriple = []; // the temporary array

  cards.forEach( card => {
      cardsTriple.push(card); // add card to temp array
      if(cardsTriple.length === 3){
          let slides = populateSlide(cardsTriple);
          cardsTriple = []; // reset the temp array
      }
  });

  // there may still be cards available
  if (cardsTriple.length) {
    populateSlide(cardsTriple);
  }
}

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '20 at 08:29

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I'll recommand to use .slice and then .wrapAll

here is an example :

var divs = $("div > div");
for(var i = 0; i < cards.length; i+=3) {
  divs.slice(i, i+3).wrapAll("<div class='new'></div>");
}

answered Feb 21 '20 at 08:29

Adrien Panel

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This requires `jQuery`, which is not mentioned in the question. – Yoshi Feb 21 '20 at 08:39

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '20 at 08:35

Using CSS, and then directly insert all children into the parent div. No need to do anthing in JS.

<div class="row" id="parent">
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">AAA</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavenderblush;">BBB</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">CCC</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">DDD</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavenderblush;">EEE</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">FFF</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">AAA</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavenderblush;">BBB</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">CCC</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">DDD</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavenderblush;">EEE</div>
  <div class="col-sm-4" style="background-color:lavender;">FFF</div>    
</div>

cards.map(item => Document.getElementById('parent').appendChild(item));

This requires `Bootstrap`, which is not mentioned in the question. — Yoshi, Feb 21 '20 at 08:39
@Yoshi agreed, but this approach is using the right one. :) hope you also agree. — David, Feb 21 '20 at 08:40
I might, but without further information about the actual use case this is *too assuming*. — Yoshi, Feb 21 '20 at 08:44

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 21 '20 at 08:54

Here is solution that's chunking items to groups of 3:

function chunks(array, n) {
  return Array(Math.ceil(array.length/n)).fill().map((_,i) => array.slice(i*n,i*n+n));
}

var cards = []
for(var i=0; i < 50; i++){
  cards.push('<div class="card-item">Test</div>');
}

var cardChunks = chunks(cards, 3)

var slider = cardChunks.map(cards => {
  return `<div class="carousel-item item">${cards.join('')}</div>`
}).join('')

For chunking I used solution from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10456644/4267716 but you can find it in popular libraries like lodash.

JavaScript - Wrap every 3 items from an array to a div

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