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Hi there,

I posted another thread about getting blank outputs using LG TinyMCE fields, but it got moved to the extensions forum. I’ve since realised actually it has nothing to do with TinyMCE - my fields are now simply XHTML Textareas and the problem persists.

So, here is my problem:

I have weblog with two XHTML Textarea fields.
I place markup such as the following in field number 1 (called body-main):

Lorem
<h3>Title</h3>
<p><ul><br />
<li>List Item</li><br />
</ul><br />
<a href="http://jmar777.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/images/photoshop/dirty/blue_gradient.jpg">http://jmar777.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/images/photoshop/dirty/blue_gradient.jpg</a>

My template looks like:

<div class="middle-content">
   {body-main}
</div>
{if "{body-bottom}"}
   <div class="bottom-content">
      {body-bottom}
   </div>
{/if}

Pretty basic - put the body-main field contents in one div, and the body-bottom field contents in the other div.

Ok so I save this out, and yes it works fine. Now I come to put the very same markup that I put in the first field, into field number 2 (body-bottom).

What happens? The output for my whole template is blank.

Any ideas?

A few things: First, I don’t understand why you chose Formatting “XHTML” if you provide all the markup yourself. Wouldn’t “None” be better in your case? Secondly, you should not brace your conditionals or use the deprecated {if foo} short form. Use this:

{if body-bottom != ""} ... {/if}

Is the error triggered by putting the same content in both fields? Or did you have something else in the first field when you tried it? What version and build of EE are you on, anyway?

Ingmar, thanks very much for helping. It was down to the conditionals - getting rid of the short form and braces seems to have solved the issue. Strange how they worked some of the time with some markup, and broke with other markup.

Silly mistake, I probably wouldn’t have spotted this for ages, so again thanks very much.

Glad Ingmar was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.