OPTv2: Conditional whitespace

[duclet]

Is there a way to specify within the template that the content of the specified tag should keep the whitespace as declared. Right now I see the <pre> tag does this but lets say I want the content of a <div> tag to keep the whitespace but only for that one div. So there something like <div keepwhitespace="yes"> I can use?

[Zyx]

Such feature is planned for OPT 2.1, but perhaps I'll do some extra patch for 2.0 branch, because you're not the first one who asks for it.

[duclet]

Cool. Thanks.

One other question that is somewhat similar. Is there a way to allow some comments to be displayed on the page but the rest is still hidden? Basically, I want to use the conditional if's to include some extra stylesheets if it is Internet Explorer. Currently, the only way to get it to display is to have printComments set to true. I don't want that since I would prefer those other comments not be shown.

Actually, as I am writing this, I just thought of a way and that is to have the HTML for that part in a variable. I noticed that when outputting a variable, the whitespace is kept in tact so I would assume that goes for the comments. However, I would prefer to stay away from using that since that kind of defeats the purpose of templating. Is there any other viable options?

[Zyx]

Of course, you can always generate certain comments with opt:literal:

Code:

<opt:literal type="comment">Some text here</opt:literal>

The result:

Code:

<!--Some text here-->

You can also use the "transparent" type. For example, in one of my projects I use the following code for conditional IE comments:

Code:

<opt:literal type="transparent">
<![CDATA[<!--[if lte IE 6]>]]><link rel="stylesheet" parse:href="$global.website.path~'design/ie.css'" type="text/css" /><![CDATA[<![endif]-->]]>
<![CDATA[<!--[if IE 7]>]]><link rel="stylesheet" parse:href="$global.website.path~'design/ie7.css'" type="text/css" /><![CDATA[<![endif]-->]]>
</opt:literal>

The comment tags are enclosed within CDATA sections. opt:literal strips the CDATA tags during compilation, leaving correct conditional IE comments.

See:

http://static.invenzzia.org/docs/opt/2_0/book/en/syntax.instructions.literal.html
http://wiki.invenzzia.org/wiki/Conditional_comments_for_IE

[duclet]

Thats what I get for not skimming the docs. That works perfectly. Thanks.