Sightly data sly test question

Are you asking if this equals false if the image will still show up?

This is answered in the spec:  htl-spec/SPECIFICATION.md at master · Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/htl-spec · GitHub

2.2.5. Test

data-sly-test: 

Keeps, or removes the element depending on the attribute value.

Element: shown if test evaluates to true.

Content of element: shown if test evaluates to true.

Attribute value: optional; evaluated as Boolean (but not type-cased to Boolean when exposed in a variable); evaluates to false if the value is omitted.

Attribute identifier: optional; identifier name to access the result of the test.

Removes the whole element from the markup if the expression evaluates to false.

I'm aware that the content of the containing tag will not show if the test evaluates as false.

What I'm asking is, is there some way of overriding that feature?

<a data-sly-test>

     <img>

<a>

The a tag is an optional feature in the component. I want to add a test on that div, because if a link hasn't been specified by the content editor, I don't want the tag to show up. Regardless, I will always want the img tag to show.

Cheers for the advice, Radha. I'll go with that solution.

That is like saying in Java is there a way to get a statement to work in an If statement as such

if (val1 < val2)

     do something

This will not execute if val2 is less that val1. Same as HTL - if that condition is false - then it will not be included in the page.

There is another option, although it retains an element around your image:

If `image.link` is authored, it outputs <a>, else it outputs <div>.

Con:

• the div will have an empty 'href' 

Pro:

• you have a consistent element wrapping your image to help control styling.
• No redundant code just for an if/else statement. 

Hi @alistairp781078 

There is a attribute of HTL called data-sly-unwrap which basically removes the wrapping element if not required. You can set data-sly-unwrap conditionally like

To read more about this attribute. Read examples here https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/experience-manager-htl/using/htl/block-statements.html

Hop it helps!

Nupur