Unable to make conditional checks on content.language

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Hi all,

I’m trying to create some dynamic elements on our CMS pages that vary based on the laungage of the page. It seems like I should be able to us content.language to get the language code for the page, but for some reason I can’t seem to get any queries against it to work.

For example, directly printing {{ content.language }} or returns “en”

but if I do:

{% if content.language == "en" %}
 <p>Your language is English.</p>
{% else %}
 <p>Your language is something else.</p>
{% endif %}

I always get back “Your language is something else”. For some reason the IF statement just isn’t matching the language.

Any suggestions what I’m doing wrong?

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Hi SimonH_Demodia,

Thanks for posting this. I’m having an engineer look at this. I think what’s happening is that the {{ content.language }} variable isn’t getting its type set to str, which is what should be happening. You can print the variable because it exists. And if you run a conditional statement like this:

{% if content.language == content.language %}
 <p>content.language == content.language</p>
{% endif %}

You should see that it evaluates to true and your <p> tag gets printed. So it is possible to use it in conditional tests. But if you run a type() test on it with something like:

<p>type(content.language): {{ type(content.language) }}</p>

…the type comes back as unknown. Which would explain why it’s not ever equal to “en”, which is a str type. I’ll let you know when I have a better answer for you, but I think this is what’s happening.

3

Thanks, that looks like exactly what’s happening.

Try this and take a look at the result… {{ content.language|pprint }}

4

Hi SimonH_Demodia,

Just wanted to update you on this one. We’ve updated our documentation to reflect the fact that content.language is a dict. You can access the string language value from content.language.languageTag . And you can test for the language variation of your page by doing something like:

{% if content.language.languageTag == "en" %}
 {# this is the English translate of the page #}
{% endif %}

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions about it.

- Leland