Re: [elm-discuss] Feature proposal: Html.none

2016-09-01 Thread Oliver Searle-Barnes
This is something that comes up a lot in the #beginners channel. After seeing Cmd.none and Sub.none people instinctively reach for Html.none for conditionally rendered parts of the view and are surprised when it doesn't exist. Using `text ""` is a great practical solution but Html.none is

Re: [elm-discuss] Feature proposal: Html.none

2016-08-31 Thread Nick H
Evan pointed out on Elm Dev that this is functionality is already available: none = text "" but I don't think that solution is very obvious, and agree that adding none to the library would be nice. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Mark Hamburg wrote: > Html.none would

[elm-discuss] Feature proposal: Html.none

2016-08-31 Thread Mark Hamburg
Html.none would produce a virtual DOM node but that node would not produce anything in the actual DOM. It's usage is an alternative to list concatenation and empty divs. For example: div [] [ headerView model, , model.error |> Maybe.map errorBoxView |> Maybe.withDefault Html.none ,