[Zope] Need some newbie tal help

[Tres Seaver]

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On 10/05/2010 01:20 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a table and I am putting data into the cells using tal. I want to
> bold the data under a certain condition. I tried this, but it didn't work:
> 
> <td tal:content="string:${player/name}"><b
> tal:condition="python:str(player['name']) == 'Team'">name</b></td>
> 
> The data (player/name) appears correctly, but when player/name='Team', the
> text is not bold. After some reading, I believe what is happening is that
> the tal:content tag is replacing everything between the <td> and the </td>
> tags. Is this correct? I tried this, and no bold either:
> 
> <td tal:content="string:${player/GP}"><b>GP</b></td>
> 
> which supports my hypothesis about the tal:content tag.
> 
> How do I add some "conditional bold effect" in my table data?

You are correct that 'tal:content' on a wrapper element replaces any
markup in the children.  You want to use 'tal:content' on the 'b' tag
itself, and then 'tal:omit-tag' to drop the element (but not its
contents).  See:

http://wiki.zope.org/ZPT/TALSpecification14#omit-tag


Tres.
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