How to hide a card field in anki?

Question

In Anki I am trying to hide a third field if it is empty. This field is named Ref. In the styling view of a card, accessed by Edit > Cards, I have the following HTML snippet in the back template:

<a href="{{Ref}}">Link</a>

What I wish to know is how to hide the field if it is empty. There is the possibility to add Javascript to the card field, but there is no element inspector in the program.

M. Andres · Answer 1 · 2017-01-09T09:23:57.273

According to the anki manual, you can use conditionals with {{#Field}} ... {{/Field}} or {{^Field}} ... {{/Field}} to test if the field is blank or not. In your case, try something like this:

{{#Link}}
<a href="{{Ref}}">Link</a>
{{/Link}}

I haven't tested it, but it should work.

Edit: It's a bit late, but I realized I mixed up the names of the fields, and the Link field conditionals should have been called Ref:

{{#Ref}}
<a href="{{Ref}}">Link</a>
{{/Ref}}

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 08 '17 at 19:28

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What I ended up doing was the following:

{{#Ref}}<a href="{{Ref}}">Link</a>{{/Ref}}

edited Jan 08 '17 at 19:28

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answered Apr 14 '15 at 18:32

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how is this different from @M. Andres' answer? – StevieP Jul 30 '15 at 20:08
Look closely. {{#Ref}} – mr_js Aug 01 '15 at 11:11
My bad. Sorry about that. – StevieP Aug 02 '15 at 00:47
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To clarify, you chose this answer since `Link` isn't a field in your note type? – StevieP Aug 02 '15 at 00:48

How to hide a card field in anki?

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