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Syntax

<txp:if_description>

The if_description tag is a conditional tag and always used as an opening and closing pair, like this…

<txp:if_description>
    …conditional statement…
</txp:if_description>

The tag will execute the contained statement if the current article/section/category’s ‘Description’ field has an entry.

Attributes

Tag will accept the following attributes (case-sensitive) as well as the global attributes :

type="context"
Textpattern context to check against. You can choose from the following contexts (set to empty to include all contexts):
article is this an article author list?
image is this an image author list?
file is this a file author list?
link is this a link author list?
Default: article.

Examples

Example 1: Supply meta tag if description exists

<head>
    ….
    <txp:if_description>
        <txp:meta_description />
    <txp:else />
        <meta name="description" content="A generic description fallback, possibly about bacon." />
    </txp:if_description>
    ….
</head>

Other tags used: else, meta_description.

Genealogy

Version 4.6.0

Tag support added

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