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im trying to make a if conditional on a checkbox with multple boxes
but if theres more then one box selected it doenst work

{if checkbox == "foo"}
works
{/if}

{if checkbox == "foo, bar"}
doenst work
{/if}

how can i get this to work?

How many values could your checkbox have?

Normally I’d use a conditional for each possible value;

{if checkbox_field == "Yes"}
Answer yes
{/if}

{if checkbox_field == "No"}
Answer no
{/if}

{if checkbox_field == ""}
Not specified
{/if}

if two options are checked it must be a different answer than if just one of them is selected

so with “foo, bar” i meant 2 different options being selected.

i indeed didnt make that clear 😊

Ok, maybe use the standard tag loop to output the checkbox data:

{checkbox_field}
    {item}

{/checkbox_field}

That would output any value that has been checked.

Alternatively you could use a conditional to only display certain item values:

{checkbox_field}
    
  {if item == "Red"}
  {item}
  {/if]

{/checkbox_field}

Docs at http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/custom_fields.html#checkbox-fields

ah yes thanks that did the trick, more easy then i thought it would be 😊

i now can use the conditional as {if item == "Red, Blue"}

ah yes thanks that did the trick, more easy then i thought it would be 😊

i now can use the conditional as {if item == "Red, Blue"}

Not that syntax, but could use a complex conditional:

{if item == "red" OR item == "blue"}
{item}
{/if}

hmm it does work with the ,

and otherwise i think it should be AND

{if item == "red" AND item == "blue"}
{item}
{/if}

which also works, thanks i will use that

Does it work with comma separated values? Not seen that before 😊

Good stuff - you could use AND or OR depending what you want to compare.

Hey 77120,

I am glad to see that you and Rob were able to resolve your issue.

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,