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(for example, <p ID=”En”>), that HTML element will be added to the content:
var language = record.fields.LANGUAGE;
results.loadhtml(‘snippets/nameofthesnippet.html’, ‘#’+ language)
Another example is given in the following how-to: Using a selector to load part of a snippet.
See also: "API" on page 174.
Tip
An easy way to group content in a snippet is putting each part in a container and giving
that container an ID, for example:
<div ID=”EN”><p>This is text for English customers.</p></div>
Use the function .children() to load the contents of the container, and not the container
itself. For example:
results.loadhtml(‘Snippets/myfooter.html’, ‘#EN’).children()
This script loads the paragraph of the example (<p>), but not the container itself (<div>).
Load a snippet and insert variable data into it
The following script loads part of a snippet based on the value of a field, and then
finds/replaces text by the value of a field before inserting the content into the document.
var promoTxt = loadhtml('snippets/promo-en.html', '#' +
record.fields['YOGA']);
promoTxt.find('@first@').text(record.fields['FIRSTNAME']);
results.html(promoTxt);
Control Scripts
Control Scripts are scripts that affect the output of a template per record as a whole, instead of
parts of the content. They are executed before the data is merged and can be used to control
how different sections of the context are handled when the output is generated.
With a control script you can, among other things:
l Conditionally omit sections from print output
l Dynamically set the background image of a section
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