Embedding tags within tags

Posted by David Greiner on July 20, 2007 5:49 PM

When we announced our new default= and link="true" template tags in May, we got some awesome feedback. One great suggestion came from MailBuild customer Lara Compton, who wanted tags to work within tags. Here's what she asked for...

Love the new default value feature... One more thing that we would like to be able to do is the following:

<$title default="Welcome to the <$currentmonthname$> issue of Newsletter"$>

We were listening, and today I'm happy to announce that we now support the use of tags within the default= tag for all MailBuild templates. Thanks for the suggestion Lara, keep them coming.

3 total comments:

Mark Barnes August 2, 2007 8:16 PM

This is great, but it would be even better if you could use the default value with the imagesrc tag.

This way we could have <img src="<$imagesrc default='usual-image.jpg' $>" width="150">

Sometimes I have to create multiple templates that differ only in one image in order to get around this limitation.

Dave Greiner August 3, 2007 12:41 AM

Good call Mark, we completely agree. You'll be pleased to know that one's on the development list and we hope to get to it soon.

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