Django CMS - check if placeholder is empty

Question

I use:

• DjangoCMS 2.4
• Django 1.5.1
• Python 2.7.3

I would like to check if my placeholder is empty.

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Answer 1

Depending on what you are trying to achieve, you can simply use CSS to hide the element if doesn't have content using the :empty selector. And if you are worried about white spaces you can use Django's in-build {% spaceless %} template tag to remove them.

So you'd get this template:

{% spaceless %}

    {% placeholder "my_placeholder" %}

{% endspaceless %}

And this CSS:

hide_if_empty:empty {
    display: none;
}

Not exactly what was asked for as it doesn't remove the HTML - but this will solve the most common case where one wants to check if a place holder is empty, and doesn't require the introduction of a new template tag.