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scaml "illegal nesting" error

Hi I'm a total Noob at scalate/scaml (I tagged haml since scaml & haml are similar). I have some template that looks like this:

-@ var customer : com.x.model.Customer
!!!
%html
    %body
        %p Contact:
            %a{:href => 'mailto:#{customer.email}'}=customer.contact

The %p line is flagged with this error:

org.fusesource.scalate.InvalidSyntaxException: Illegal nesting: content can't be given on the same line as html element or nested within it if the tag is closed at 16.17
Solution

  • In HAML, you can't provide content both on the same line and indented.

    So, if you write %p Contact:, you can't add anything else to the <p>. You have to move everything to the next indentation level:

        %p
      Contact:
      %a{:href => 'mailto:#{customer.email}'}=customer.contact