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Alpaco Developer Documentation
  • Introduction
  • Fundamentals
    • What are the fundamentals
    • Creating an email
  • Template
    • Base
    • Blocks
    • Input Groups
      • Input Types
        • Text String
        • Textarea
        • Select
        • Boolean
        • Image
          • Image settings
        • Color Picker
  • Account settings
    • Integrations
    • Merge Tags
  • How to
    • Escape code from the editor
    • Use custom fonts
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Select

Select inputs are used for when you want to give the user options to choose from.

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Works great for:

  • Alignment - Provide the allowed text alignments (i.e. left, center, right).

  • Colors - Provide a list of available colors to choose from (i.e. brand colors), for example for a CTA button background.

  • Text Sizes - Give the marketeer an option to change text size (i.e. small, medium, large), between some preselected and approved values.

  • Market/Country - Use one Template for all markets/countries/languages, and allow the marketeer to change it per email. Works best as setting on Base so it can be applied to the entire Template.

Template Editor

When creating a new Select input, you will be able to add the predefined options. The Value of the selected option will be outputted in the liquid variable. You can set a default value to be preselected using the Advanced Options for the input.

Notice how with Select we can wrap other code bits into a Liquid statement like so:

{% if my_input_group_name.my_background_color == 'red' %}
  <td style="background-color: red">
   {% else %}
   <td style="background-color: green">
    {% endif %}

Email Editor

In this example we created the options of Red and Green for background color. Default value has been set to Red
This is how it can be applied in the code. Notice the {% if statement %} wrapping around the TD's
This is how it looks in the Email Editor