Access a variable outside the scope of a Handlebars.js each loop

Question

I have a handlebars.js template, just like this:

{{externalValue}}

<select name="test">
    {{#each myCollection}}
       <option value="{{id}}">{{title}} {{externalValue}}</option>
    {{/each}}
</select>

And this is the generated output:

myExternalValue

<select name="test">
       <option value="1">First element </option>
       <option value="2">Second element </option>
       <option value="3">Third element </option>
</select>

As expected, I can access the id and title fields of every element of myCollection to generate my select. And outside the select, my externalValue variable is correctly printed ("myExternalValue").

Unfortunately, in options' texts, externalValue value is never printed out.

My question is: how can I access a variable outside the scope of the handlebars.js each from within the loop?

Answer 1

I have a handlebars.js template, just like this:

{{externalValue}}

<select name="test">
    {{#each myCollection}}
       <option value="{{id}}">{{title}} {{externalValue}}</option>
    {{/each}}
</select>

And this is the generated output:

myExternalValue

<select name="test">
       <option value="1">First element </option>
       <option value="2">Second element </option>
       <option value="3">Third element </option>
</select>

As expected, I can access the id and title fields of every element of myCollection to generate my select. And outside the select, my externalValue variable is correctly printed ("myExternalValue").

Unfortunately, in options' texts, externalValue value is never printed out.

My question is: how can I access a variable outside the scope of the handlebars.js each from within the loop?

Answer 2

I have a handlebars.js template, just like this:

{{externalValue}}

<select name="test">
    {{#each myCollection}}
       <option value="{{id}}">{{title}} {{externalValue}}</option>
    {{/each}}
</select>

And this is the generated output:

myExternalValue

<select name="test">
       <option value="1">First element </option>
       <option value="2">Second element </option>
       <option value="3">Third element </option>
</select>

As expected, I can access the id and title fields of every element of myCollection to generate my select. And outside the select, my externalValue variable is correctly printed ("myExternalValue").

Unfortunately, in options' texts, externalValue value is never printed out.

My question is: how can I access a variable outside the scope of the handlebars.js each from within the loop?

Answer 3

I have a handlebars.js template, just like this:

{{externalValue}}

<select name="test">
    {{#each myCollection}}
       <option value="{{id}}">{{title}} {{externalValue}}</option>
    {{/each}}
</select>

And this is the generated output:

myExternalValue

<select name="test">
       <option value="1">First element </option>
       <option value="2">Second element </option>
       <option value="3">Third element </option>
</select>

As expected, I can access the id and title fields of every element of myCollection to generate my select. And outside the select, my externalValue variable is correctly printed ("myExternalValue").

Unfortunately, in options' texts, externalValue value is never printed out.

My question is: how can I access a variable outside the scope of the handlebars.js each from within the loop?

Answer 4

Not an answer to the original question, but I faced a similar problem - I have a custom helper that was not rendering the variables inside of it.

My helper was similar to the handlebars if helper, so it should not have needed the ../path syntax. Turns out I was using a fat arrow function when registering the helper, and this is different inside a fat arrow function .

Handlebars.registerHelper('ifeq', (v1, v2, options) => {    

to

Handlebars.registerHelper('ifeq', function (v1, v2, options)  {