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Creating an If Edit Mode tag

The IfEditMode tag is used to render content in a web content viewer portlet only when a page is in edit mode. This tag can be used to display text, fields, and elements in edit mode that are not required to be displayed when the page is in view mode.

About this task

The format of an IfEditMode tag:

[IfEditMode]

[/IfEditMode]

To create an IfEditMode tag:

Procedure

  1. Click Insert a Tag from a presentation template, component, or element design field. The Tag Helper dialog opens.
  2. Select If Edit Mode as the tag type.
  3. Click OK to add the tag to your design.

What to do next

Extra text, HTML, or tags are added between the [IfEditMode] and [/IfEditMode] tags. The text and tags added here is what is rendered when a page is in edit mode.

For example:
[IfEditMode]
This content is only rendered when in edit mode.
[Property type="content" context="current" field="title"]
[/IfEditMode]
Parent topic: Creating web content tags
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