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Else conditional needs to be closed?
Hello
Testing a simple
<perch:if exists="image">
do this
<perch:else>
do this instead
</perch:if>
Doesn't seem to work. The else needs to be
<perch:else />
in order to work. Is it me or that needs to be in the documentation? Also didn't an update mention something about closing tags being removed?
Else has always been a self closing tag in Perch.
https://docs.grabaperch.com/templates/conditionals/else/
<perch:if exists="name"> <h2><perch:content id="name" type="text" label="Name"></h2> <perch:else> Author unknown </perch:if>Self closing as in it closes without a
/?Hello Lexi,
A self-closing tag looks like this:
<perch:else/>The example in the documentation is correct. You don't have to use a self-closing tag for
perch:elseif you are using the latest version of Perch.What version are you using?
Oh my bad. Yeah 3.0.5. A bit behind. Thanks.