If/Else template tag: Templating attributes results in "unexpected token: else"

[donabrams@…]

For an empty object: {},

Templates that Work:

<div id="{{if something}}{{else}}divid{{/if}}"></div>
{{if something}}<div>{{else}}<div id="divid">{{/if}}</div>

Template that does not work (when it should):

<div {{if something}}{{else}}id="divid"{{/if}}></div>

[donabrams@…]

jsFiddle test case: ​http://jsfiddle.net/87Gxk/5/

[jitter]

Shouldn't you report this at the following url? ​http://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl/issues

As this seems to be about the jQuery Templates plugin not about jQuery itself

[donabrams@…]

According to the bug report page:

For jQuery Core or Official jQuery Plugins (i.e. jQuery Templating or Data Linking): This is the right place!

[addyosmani]

@jitter We're currently accepting tickets regarding the officially supported plugins through Trac so this ticket should be fine. Boris (from MS) will likely follow up.

[BorisMoore]

This is the wrong way to create templates from strings. $('somestring') requires the string to be HTML, but

<div>{{if something}}<div>{{else}}<div id="divid">{{/if}}two</div></div>, 

for example, is not HTML. And $('somestring') cannot parse somestring as a template. So in fact 2 does not work either. The correct way to do example three would be:

var tmpl3 = $.template(null, '<div if}}="" something}}{{else}}id="divid" {{="" {{if="">three</div>'); 
$.tmpl(tmpl3, {}).appendTo("#tmpl3div"); 

Or simply:

$.tmpl('<div if}}="" something}}{{else}}id="divid" {{="" {{if="">three</div>', {}).appendTo("#tmpl3div");