I'm using the Webform module to create a form and all is going well, but it's creating the HTML for the description field even if there is no description (help text) present. Here's what's getting displayed:

<div class="description">
<p/>
</div>

The problem is that the "p" tag is throwing up some CSS that I don't need in this case. Is there a way to only print the HTML for the description if the description field has actual data in it? Something like:

<?php if ($description): ?>
    <div class="description"><?php print $description ?></div>
<?php endif;?>

I have no idea if $description is a valid variable or not -- this was just for example.

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Category: bug » support

Webform will not print out the description if it is truly empty. The problem you're having looks like it's caused by having a WYSIWYG editor enabled, which is inserting an empty <p></p> tag into the description textarea.

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I'm not using a WYSIWYG editor but I am using BBCode -- would that have anything to do with it?

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Oh, hmm. I'm not familiar enough with BBCode to know if it might be having that effect. I don't think it should make a difference, since the description field isn't run through the normal filtering system in which BBCode has control.

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That's what I thought. If webform does do the if/then code that I mentioned in my initial post, where in the module is it? I've looked for anything to do with that description field and haven't found much relevant code.

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Can anyone point me to the code that controls the display of the description field?

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

All of the descriptions are added within each individual component.inc file. Usually the line looks like this:

    '#description'   => $filter ? _webform_filter_descriptions($component['extra']['description']) : $component['extra']['description'],

In most cases the description is inserted directly into the element, meaning that the <p></p> tags must already be inside the description at the point where they are set. I'm closing this issue directly considering it is so old.