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The default attribute doesn't work in page attribute templates.
I don't know if this is a bug or if it's intentional, but I've noticed that the "default" attribute doesn't work in page attribute templates (for example, the seo.html template that comes with Perch).
It'd be nice if it did, so we can provide some solid defaults for meta descriptions and keywords. I was able to achieve something similar using the <perch:if exists=""> tag, but it's not quite as clean as using the default attribute would be:
<perch:pages id="description" label="Description" type="textarea" size="xs" escape="true" default="sensible default page description" />
I think it may be that it's a
textareatype.I tried switching it to
textand I still didn't see the default output if I left the fields blank. I guess wrapping the<perch:if exists="">works well enough, I just assumed thedefaultwould work (and be cleaner code too).Yes, I would have thought that too. I'll look into it.