Strangely enough, that is the default behavior of mason.

Any component can be called as a component-with-content, but if you do not
actually call $m->content and do something with it, the content will be
discarded.

~ John Williams


On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Paul Wallingford wrote:

> A solution would be to have something like the component-with-content
> feature, except that the content is discarded by Mason.  Maybe a
> component-with-dummy-content.
>
> Example:
>
> <&! /components/leftnav.mas, page => "products" &>
>
> <img src="/images/grayarea.gif" width="180" height="500">
>
> </&>
>
>
> The HTML editor would ignore the Mason specific parts and display the
> gray GIF, in this case, which would take up the space normally occupied
> by the full blown navigation component thus preserving the layout of the
> page.
>
> Mason would substitute the GIF for the content of the actual component.
>
> This is actually a simple change.  I can submit a patch if people agree
> this is useful.  For me it would help immensely.
>
> Or, are there any suggestions on how to accomplish this currently?
>
> Paul Wallingford


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