[Templates] Appending HTML to a var ............

[Josh Rosenbaum]

Anthony Gardner wrote:
> .......... for later 'shoving out to display'.
> 
> I'm trying to append some html and data to two vars and display them at 
> a later date. I've tried appending to a normal string, pushing onto a 
> list, using String.new and append ........ but nothing but hair pullling.
> 
> When using the method below, it just shoves the html straight out to 
> display, with list or String, I have a problem with the html tags even 
> when trying to escape them.
> 
> I can;t think anymore ....... need tea. Need help, please and then we 
> can add a big site to the list of sites ;)
> 
> 
> pseudo ...
> FOREACH somelist
>   IF sth == 'new'
>     new = new _ '<td>New</td>
>   ELSE
>     old = old _ '<td>Old</td>
>   END
> END
> 
> <tr blue>[% new %]</tr>
> <tr red>[% old %]</tr>
> 
> Merci (mercy on me) -Ants

That pseudo code looks mostly fine. (Although there are no ending quotes after the </td> or semi-colons.) Give us some real code and we can probably help you out here. Or implement your psuedo code and post it if you still can't get that to work.

-- Josh