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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

You're reading from   Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid Design state-of-the-art, dynamic Shopify eCommerce websites using Liquid's powerful features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813969
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivan Djordjevic Ivan Djordjevic
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Shopify Explained
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Shopify FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Basic Flow of Liquid 4. Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
5. Chapter 3: Diving into Liquid Core with Tags 6. Chapter 4: Diving into Liquid Core with Objects 7. Chapter 5: Diving into Liquid Core with Filters 8. Section 3: Behind the Scenes
9. Chapter 6: Configuring the Theme Settings 10. Chapter 7: Working with Static and Dynamic Sections 11. Chapter 8: Exploring the Shopify Ajax API 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Controlling whitespace

In the previous sections, we learned how to use conditionals with variable data types to ensure that we always receive a correct value. However, even with our conditionals, the same values can be accompanied by some unwanted whitespaces:

Collection info:
{% if collection %}
  The collection's name is {{ collection.title }} !
{% endif %}

In the previous example, we have created a conditional that will return true if our collection object exists, ensuring that our message will not be incomplete. While our result looks correct, if we were to inspect the page, we would see that things aren't perfect:

Collection info:
  The collection's name is Winter Shoes !

As we can see from our previous example, we have successfully recovered the collection information. However, we can see a significant number of empty spaces around our message, which results from processing Liquid code. Even though not every Liquid code will output...

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