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Access label from config.json select in Publii template

October 4, 2020 at 9:11 pm #3959
[anonymous]
I’m developing a sub-theme with an address state/province selector in the config.json:
```
{
    "name": "state",
    "label": "State",
    "group": "Contact",
    "type": "select",
    "options": [
        {
            "label": "Alabama",
            "value": "AL"
        },
        {
            "label": "Alaska",
            "value": "AK"
        }
     ]
}
```
In my template, the state is in an `` element:
```
<abbr>{{@config.custom.state.stateName}}</abbr>
```
Is there a way to access the `label` from the json file? If so I could do something like this:
```
<abbr title="{{@config.custom.state.stateNameLabel}}">{{@config.custom.state.stateName}}</abbr>
```
with the result:
```
<abbr title="Alabama">AL</abbr>
```
Or, is there another way to send both an abbreviation and full name to the template? I was thinking something like:
```
{
    "name": "state",
    "label": "State/territory",
    "group": "Contact info",
    "type": "select",
    "options": [
        {
            "label": "Alabama",
            "value": [
                "AL",
                "Alabama"
            ]
        },
        {
            "label": "Alaska",
            "value": [
                "AK",
                "Alaska"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
```
But there’s no way to access the value. Using <code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”generic”>@config.custom.state.stateName produces no output, while <code class=”EnlighterJSRAW” data-enlighter-language=”generic”>@config.custom.state.stateName.value[0] produces an error.

Meta: I’m putting this in General Inquiry, maybe it belongs in Feature Suggestions? (Or maybe in the bit bucket!)
October 5, 2020 at 5:10 am #3962
Bob
Your field name is “state” not “stateName”, so the @config variable should contain “state“, and finally looks like this:
```
<abbr>{{@config.custom.state}}</abbr>
```
The “title” attribute phrases should be placed in the language file.
October 5, 2020 at 9:51 pm #3975

[anonymous]

[anonymous] wrote:

Your field name is “state” not “stateName”, so the @config variable should contain “state“

That was a typo. In my template, I’m using “state”, and it’s working fine. The question is can I get the label of the drop down from config.json.

In addition to my typo, I think I didn’t explain my question clearly. I now see that the forum software kind of garbled my original post. (It appears to really muck things up with inline code. Has anyone else had problems with that?)

[anonymous] wrote:

<abbr>{{@config.custom.state}}</abbr> The “title” attribute phrases should be placed in the language file.

I don’t understand this. Might be because of the problems I had writing the original post. What language file are you referring to?

October 6, 2020 at 5:12 am #3976

Bob

HI,

This one https://getpublii.com/dev/translations-api/

October 10, 2020 at 4:34 pm #4038
[anonymous]
Ok, so I create theme.lang.json with this:
```
{
    "states": {
        "AL": "Alabama",
        "AK": "Alaska",
        "AZ": "Arizona",
        "WY": "Wyoming"
    }
}
```
So my theme has a drop down where the user selects a state, say “Alabama” (see the original post in this thread), and the template puts in “AL”. Now, what handlebars expression do I use to get “Alabama”?