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Adetona Abiodun Abdulquadri
Adetona Abiodun Abdulquadri

Reputation: 384

What is wrong with this syntax of my ejs code?

I'm trying to use if/else in ejs but whenever I add the else part an error shows up. 

<% if (user) {%>


<%=user.twitter.username%>

<%}%>

<%=else{%>

    Hi hi 
<%}%>

The error says: SyntaxError: Unexpected token else in C:\Users\Adetona\Dropbox\meme.africa\views\pages\index.ejs while compiling ejs

Whenever I removed the else part everything works well.

What could I be doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 670

Answers (3)

pcodex
pcodex

Reputation: 1940

The ejs view engine needs to understand that it's compiling an if-else block so try writing it as shown below

Place the curly braces as shown below and tag it appropriately.

if { 
// if block code statements 

} else {
//else block code statements
}

so it becomes

<% if { %>
// if block code statements 

<% } else { %>
//else block code statements
<% } %>

Upvotes: 0

user9201277
user9201277

Reputation:

<% %> means that you are making an expression or declaring a variable etc...

<%- %> the text will be printed but not escaped you could still do calculation inside like (a > b) ? a : b;

<%= %> will escape html lets say you are getting a user input and print it on the screen then you want that to be escaped.

Upvotes: 1

Rich Churcher
Rich Churcher

Reputation: 7654

I believe you need to pair the else with the end of the previous conditional block, so:

<% if (user) { %>
  ...
<% } else { %>
  ...
<% } %>

Upvotes: 3

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