sebastian,

Actually don't need to touch view or view template. The more 'natural' way is to check it under phptemplate_preprocess_node, if the field's content does not exist, add an additional CSS class to the node (says 'no-field-A'). This way you theme the node + the view or other ways that you retrieve a node.

In your CSS, just theme
.no-field-A .field-A {
  display: none;
}


Cheers,
CK Ng

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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:19 AM, <themes-request@drupal.org> wrote:


Message: 1
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:56:46 -0700
From: sebastian <inforazor@gmail.com>
Subject: [themes] how to stop a 'view' from showing a field?
To: themes@drupal.org
Message-ID: <49DD47CE.9070008@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hello listers,

Hope this is the right place to ask this question.

I am building a theme and I have little icons that I want to have
appearing when there is a 'File - CCK' field present.

The field is optional in the content-type. I have created a view for the
page that shows the content, and when the file-cck field is empty, it
still shows all the surrounding <div> and <a href> tags, which triggers
my CSS and then I still show the little custom PDF icon; only I want it
to be blank.

When I click on the View for the field: file-cck (generic files)

I only see the options:

- Exclude from display
- Rewrite output field
- Output this field as a link
- Trim to max length
- Link this to its node
- Label [none/drop down]
- Format [generic files]

I can't see from this list any way to have it be conditional; ie: only
display Field formatting [Div+a href] if there is actually any data present.

Thanks for your help, hopefully this is an easy one.
:)

Kind,