[btrem]

I’m developing a sub-theme with an address state/province selector in the config.json:

{
    "name": "state",
    "label": "State",
    "group": "Contact",
    "type": "select",
    "options": [
        {
            "label": "Alabama",
            "value": "AL"
        },
        {
            "label": "Alaska",
            "value": "AK"
        }
     ]
}

In my template, the state is in an `` element:

<abbr>{{@config.custom.state.stateName}}</abbr>

Is there a way to access the `label` from the json file? If so I could do something like this:

<abbr title="{{@config.custom.state.stateNameLabel}}">{{@config.custom.state.stateName}}</abbr>

with the result:

<abbr title="Alabama">AL</abbr>

Or, is there another way to send both an abbreviation and full name to the template? I was thinking something like:

{
    "name": "state",
    "label": "State/territory",
    "group": "Contact info",
    "type": "select",
    "options": [
        {
            "label": "Alabama",
            "value": [
                "AL",
                "Alabama"
            ]
        },
        {
            "label": "Alaska",
            "value": [
                "AK",
                "Alaska"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

But there’s no way to access the value. Using <code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”generic”>@config.custom.state.stateName  produces no output, while <code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”generic”>@config.custom.state.stateName.value[0] produces an error.

Meta: I’m putting this in General Inquiry, maybe it belongs in Feature Suggestions? (Or maybe in the bit bucket!)

[Bob]

Your field name is “state” not “stateName”, so the @config variable should contain “state“, and finally looks like this:

<abbr>{{@config.custom.state}}</abbr>

The “title” attribute phrases should be placed in the language file.

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[btrem]

Bob wrote:

Your field name is “state” not “stateName”, so the @config variable should contain “state“

That was a typo. In my template, I’m using “state”, and it’s working fine. The question is can I get the label of the drop down from config.json.

In addition to my typo, I think I didn’t explain my question clearly. I now see that the forum software kind of garbled my original post. (It appears to really muck things up with inline code. Has anyone else had problems with that?)

Bob wrote:

<abbr>{{@config.custom.state}}</abbr> The “title” attribute phrases should be placed in the language file.

I don’t understand this. Might be because of the problems I had writing the original post. What language file are you referring to?

[Bob]

HI,

This one https://getpublii.com/dev/translations-api/

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[btrem]

Ok, so I create theme.lang.json with this:

{
    "states": {
        "AL": "Alabama",
        "AK": "Alaska",
        "AZ": "Arizona",
        "WY": "Wyoming"
    }
}

So my theme has a drop down where the user selects a state, say “Alabama” (see the original post in this thread), and the template puts in “AL”. Now, what handlebars expression do I use to get “Alabama”?

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