[Resolved] Using HTML inside a conditional

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[Alex W]

I am trying to use the following conditional:

[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '' ) AND ( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '<li></li>' )"  debug="true"]

The list items HTML in it are stopping it from working I think, plus messed up the debug (see screenshot)

So I changed it to this:

[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '' ) AND ( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '<li></li>' )"  debug="true"]

and now the debug looks like this, but the conditional is still not working:

####################
wpv-conditional attributes
####################
Array
(
    [if] => ( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '' ) AND ( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '<li></li>' )
    [debug] => true
)

####################
Debug information
####################
--------------------
Original expression: ( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '' ) AND ( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '<li></li>' )
--------------------
--------------------
Converted expression: ( '
' ne '' ) AND ( '
' ne '<li></li>' )
--------------------

How can I have the list HTML inside the conditional please?

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Well - I do not know why you want to check html tags with [wpv-conditional] shortcode but yes I checked the issue locally and I can see the same output as you did. It looks like there is some issue or its expected but I will report this to our Devs to get concrete answer on that and ask why it decodes the html entities within [wpv-conditional] shortcode.

However - when I tried following statement:

[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '' ) AND ( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '<li></li>' )"  debug="true"]

I can see [wpv-conditional] shortcode outputs correct content as field is not empty and field value is not equal to '

.

If you can tell me your exact requirement with problem URL, I will try to share workaround.

[Alex W]

Hi Minesh

I won't go into the reasons why I need to check html tags in the conditional but the fact is that I do.

When I use the same conditional you did it breaks as per my previous screenshot. When I try to use HTML entities in place of the opening tag the debug suggests that it should work, but it's still returning true even when wpcf-book-reviews contains the list tags.

Here is a book that has

<li></li>

in the wpcf-book-review field. You can see the debug output:
hidden link

[Minesh]

Could you please share temporary access details so that I can check if I can provide you some workaround.

[Minesh]

Could you please check now. I've changed your [wpv-conditional] statement as given under:

[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-book-reviews) ne '' ) AND ( '[types field='book-reviews' output='raw'][/types]' ne '<li></li>' )"]
    <div class="reviews">
      <h3>Reviews</h3>
      <ul>
      [types field='book-reviews'][/types]
      </ul>
    </div>
    [/wpv-conditional]

Now, I can see its working properly as per your requirement. Could you please confirm.

[Alex W]

Thank you that's working perfectly now. I'll remember to use this method in the future too.