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I imagine there is a simply solution to this, but I'm not seeing it:

I have a block of text that I want to appear at the end of the text on a page (but before the items, in the normal place). However, I only want the text to appear when the reader has a specific item in place. I was trying to find a way to make the usual text "if" statement to work, but I was trying to combine that with the ITEMSTATE variable:

%%$ITEMSTATE2%=%1%Fun, exciting text to appear here.%%

Is there a way to make this work, and I'm just missing the formatting? I mean, I could see another way to make it work by creating a new variable and putting IF code in the script on the page, but that seems needlessly complex.

Dang it. I knew if I kept playing around with it, I'd find a way. Never mind, no need to answer the question, I found a way that worked (that I didn't think would work).

For those interested in doing this, you can add the script code in the page script and just add to $PAGETEXT. Apparently anything you add to $PAGETEXT in there appears at the END of the page text, which is not what I expected, but hey, it works perfectly for what I need it to do!

Hey, thanks for chiming in!

Ah yes, I've tried that with CSS and HTML. I hadn't put any JavaScript in there... I suppose I could make some weird things happen with that to text in the reading block...

I used it to make a party management page with show/hide links.

The show/hide links was exactly what I was thinking about and where I could have some fun...

I think I have my code saved to an HTML document somewhere. I can PM it to you, if you want.

Oh hey, if it's handy, that would be cool. If not, no worries!

Yep, just found it.