I need {if no pagination} or the equivalent there of.

Example:

The above is great if I have enough items to create paging.
Sometimes I don’t have enough items, and as you can see if that is the case with the above code I will loose my closing “ul”

Is there a solution?

I am running EE 2.5.2
I have AB Pagination at my finger tips too.

Couple of things you can do - first, your pagination should be contained inside your entries loop.  And then within the entries loop itself, you can open and close the unordered list with conditionals, like so:

You can take it a step further by adding a simple conditional to the pagination as well, so pagination formatting, etc. is applied only if there is more than one page of results, particularly important if you wrap a div around the pagination links to target them for styling ...

Hope that helps.

There seems to be a problem with your example.
A channel with 5 entries returns this.

If you can get your method to work, great, how ever I am a little concerned that there isn’t an {if pagination} variable or more straight forward method native to EE.
I have suggested to EE to include such a solution with no response a while back - http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/218201/

Something where you could declare what is to loop inside the channel entries would help too, then you could have non looping code in the channel entry tag.

Any who I look forward to getting this one solved, it has been an ongoing problem for me which I would love to resolve.

Thanks for your help so far John.

Crap - sorry i missed an element. It would be:

Note the change to the fourth line - should be if count == total_results rather than just if total_results.  They the list will close after last entry returned by the loop.

No, there’s no “if paginate” that I’m aware of, but the same effect can be drawn by using the conditional I included in my example:

It has the same effect - if you put everything inside that conditional, nothing gets returned if there is no page 2.  Not perfect, but it works.

Thanks again.
I can get things to work in the simplified example.
But when I transfer it to my real template where I am using Expresso Store I can not.

Do you know if Store would throw a spanner in this solution?

Would you be open to seeing my CP?

Truthfully I don’t know how Expresso Store might affect pagination, though I thought Store still treated all content as entries and would therefore still follow the general EE entries loop model.  Have you tried contacting the Expresso Store team with the question?  I understand they provide pretty solid support.

Fair enough.
Frustrated there isn’t an if no results or no pagination tag pair.

I appreciate that this post started last year, however, I was looking for a way to get a {if no_pagination} style conditional to work today and stumbled across the following solution:

Within the channel entries tag, add the following code:

I’m running 2.5.3.

Hope this helps.

I am so sorry. Sadly, I spoke too soon. I’ve discovered the above doesn’t work after all.

However, I am not one to give up. I found the following solution does work.

As you will need to define the limit paramater to invoke the pagination, we can use this with the absolute_results variable to show content if there is no pagination.

So, in the following example I have a limit of 15 entries set on my channel entries tag:

I’m pretty sure this works.