Flare wraps variables in spans, any way to prevent this?

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When you build content that contains variables, the output has the variable wrapped in a span tag.

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<span class="ProductName">Widget</span>

Is there any way to prevent Flare from wrapping variables in span tags? I just want Flare to insert my variable without wrapping it in span tags since this is interfering with some custom CSS.

[NorthEast]

There's no option in Flare to change that behaviour.

It shouldn't really interfere with your CSS as such though, as these spans are not styled in any way - unless you have a variable name that's the same as an exisiting class name in your CSS.

[bgo]

We're using Flare variables in JavaScript on our master page. Now that Flare output wraps variables with a <span> tag, we'll have to find a workaround.

We tried using a snippet instead of a variable, but Flare doesn't seem to evaluate snippets inside of <script> tags. Adding JavaScript to extract the value of the variable from the <span> tag should work.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Brent

[NorthEast]

We're using Flare variables in JavaScript on our master page. Now that Flare output wraps variables with a <span> tag, we'll have to find a workaround.

We tried using a snippet instead of a variable, but Flare doesn't seem to evaluate snippets inside of <script> tags. Adding JavaScript to extract the value of the variable from the <span> tag should work.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Brent

Depends how you inserted your variable.

If you insert it as HTML, then it won't work.

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<MadCap:variable name="Variables.Something" />

If you insert it in this format, then it should work.

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[%=Variables.Something%]

[bgo]

Oh, yes! Thanks for pointing that out. We shouldn't have been using <MadCap:Variable> in JavaScript anyway. So it's only when using <MadCap:variable name="Variables.Something" /> that the variable in the output is within a <span> tag starting in 2020 r2. If you use the [%=Variables.Something%] form, the output is still the literal value of the variable.

Thanks,
Brent