I also have the same question about the item variable.

What do I do about this?

Here is one option…

< %
if (FieldHasValue(item, "PublishingContent"))
Response.Write("<h3>“);
%>
<publishingwebcontrols:richhtmlfield id=”PublishingContent1″ fieldname=”PublishingContent” runat=”server”></publishingwebcontrols:richhtmlfield>
< %
if (FieldHasValue(item, "PublishingContent"))
Response.Write("</h3>“);
%>

This way the <h3> tag is only rendered around the content if the field does have a value.

I tried to follow what you have presented here and I am a little confused…I’m new to sharepoint but I’m an experienced web developer (well on the front end of things) I know CSS and XHTML and javascript.

How is the H3 tag getting populated if the publish control is not in it?

Well anyway I have the following code in my page layout:

I do not want the H2 tag to be present if it is empty…As you know it will cause spacing issues. How do I do that using your code?

I also have the following code on my page and I do not want the whole DL tag outputting if there is no content in both the DT and DD tags. How do I use your code for that?

Thank you ahead of time

Sorry about that, looks like some additional formatting was adding when I did my migration to my new blog, very strange. I’ll get this updated asap.

This Regex is designed to remove empty HTML tags so that a control that only holds

or
will be validated as empty… but as you pointed out it’s broken, I’m not sure what happened with the migration as the regex above doesn’t even look remotely like what was originally there. Hope to have your fix shortly.

What is the regular expression supposed to do? I get the following error.

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
parsing “\s]+))?)+\s*|\s*)/?>” – Too many )’s.

Andy