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Hi, Has anyone experienced a trailing {/if string being output from a nested conditional statement as per the following example? I would be very grateful to know if this is to do with my code or some unexpected behaviour by EE. Thanks in advance of any opinions. Jack

{if embed:category_id != "" AND embed:channel_name != ""}
  <div id="LinksToPages">
    {exp:channel:entries channel="{embed:channel_name}" category="{embed:category_id}" dynamic="off" orderby="general_content_navigation_order" sort="asc" backspace="6"}
     {if general_content_exclude_from_nav == ""}
       <a href="http://index.php?/{segment_1}/{entry_id}" title="{title}">{title}</a> |
     {/if}
  {/exp:channel:entries}
  </div>
{/if}

Welcome to the forums, Jack! What version and build of EE are you using? Any extensions? Do you’ve got a link to the site?

Hi Ingmar,

I’m using version 2.1 and no extensions are installed. I think the issue is related to the backspace parameter of the channel tag. For example if I do not use the backspace parameter there is no trailing {/if at all.

The build is number 20100810.

Thanks, Jack.

Good catch! Yes, that would make sense: Backspacing removes characters from the last iteration of the channel entries loop. In your case, that’s at least part of the {/if} clause. You might have to re-arrange your code slightly.

Thanks Ingmar,

I’m going to add white space characters after the ending {/if} to protect it and use backspace to trim off my vertical link separator and see what happens.

Thanks for the replies.

Best…Jack

Makes sense. Let us know if that does it for you.

Hi Ingmar,

I’ve changed the layout of my links for now as however I configure the structure of the code I would need to trim the last link separator off and would still have the same problem. Thanks for you comments and help.

Best…Jack

Jack, have you considered one of the available find and replace plugins to get around this problem?

Not yet. Can you suggest anything?

Thanks, Jack

Hi Jack,

If ‘general_content_exclude_from_nav’ is a custom field in the embedded channel (which it seems to be based on your code), have you tried restructuring your code like this:

{if embed:category_id != "" AND embed:channel_name != ""}
  <div id="LinksToPages">
    {exp:channel:entries channel="{embed:channel_name}" search:general_content_exclude_from_nav="IS_EMPTY" category="{embed:category_id}" dynamic="off" orderby="general_content_navigation_order" sort="asc" backspace="6"}
       <a href="http://index.php?/{segment_1}/{entry_id}" title="{title}">{title}</a> |
  {/exp:channel:entries}
  </div>
{/if}

You could then the backspace parameter or perhaps another conditional to test for the count being equal to the total_results.

Cheers

Greg

Thanks for that Greg. The search option for that tag is new to me so I’ll give it a try.

Cheers, Jack

Let us know how you get on with Greg’s suggestion