[themes] how to exclude a View-field when not present?

[sebastian]

Yaay! This feature has now been incorporated into Views 2.8:

http://drupal.org/node/649174#comment-2343654

Best,

Seb.

sebastian wrote:
> Hi Nat,
> 
> Your suggestion would work, except that I am not just affecting the img 
> tag, but rather putting two divs before and after it, so that i have 
> drop shadows that do a "curl" on the left and on the right of the image 
> [so that it looks as if it is "pinched" from the page]. There is no way 
> this can be done with just targeting the img tag in CSS, one needs to 
> use two other div tags to get this to work. But thanks for the 
> suggestion! [I had omitted the complexity of what I was doing for the 
> question, because I felt it would have made it just confusing...]
> 
> Nat Meysenburg wrote:
>> sebastian wrote:
>>> I have a view, and I am using the check box on the image_field:
>>>
>>> [x] Rewrite the output of this field
>>>
>>> And below it, I have wraped my output in some DIV tags that add drop 
>>> shadows.
>>>
>>> Only, not all my Node's have an image, which is the way it should be 
>>> [flexible]; only Drupal still renders the wrapping DIVs instead of 
>>> seeing that there is no content, and not theming the field... 
>>> consequently, I get drop shadows when it makes no sense.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to resolve this and stop Views from rendering 
>>> supporting tags when using "rewrite output"?
>>
>> I'm a little late on this thread, and maybe I'm overlooking something
>> but is there a reason you can't add the CSS drop shadows to the img
>> element itself?
>>
>> What I mean is that your default field output should provide a div
>> identifier for the field, or failing that, one for the view. Within that
>> cascade of unique and generic named elements you should be able to find
>> the right selector to do something like ".view-field-image img" in your
>> CSS, and have it only affect the images in the context of your view.
>> Furthermore, since the CSS value is attached to the image tag itself,
>> the lack of an image will mean that the rule will simply not be called -
>> unlike your case of empty custom divs.
>>
>> ~~nat
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