The only real use for generating HTML with the helper is when you are packaging markup from within a helper. Just manually write it in the view.
On Feb 21, 7:20 am, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit <jeremybu...@classoutfit.com> wrote: > I went down the whole Html->tag route once and then methodically went through > and unpicked it; it just didn't make sense in 99.9% of all instances. > > Jeremy Burns > Class Outfit > > http://www.classoutfit.com > > On 21 Feb 2012, at 15:16:09, jeremyharris wrote: > > > > > > > > > The reason is because $text is empty. HtmlHelper::div uses HtmlHelper::tag > > which documents that it will only print the starting tag if no text is > > within the tag. I personally don't like this behavior. That's why you'll > > see things like this in baked code > > > echo $this->Html->tag('div', $post['Post']['name'].' '); > > > A is appended just in case the value is empty, so to make sure it > > includes a closing tag. So at the very least you'll need something in there. > > > -- > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video > > Tutorialshttp://tv.cakephp.org > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organd help > > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
