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Anthony c
20,907 PointsIssue with _nav template
I'm getting the following error in my browser:
Error: /Users/MYNAME/Desktop/projects/express-basics/src/templates/partials/_nav.jade:7
5| button.navbar-toggle.collapsed(type='button', data-toggle='collapse', data-target='#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1')
6| span.sr-only Toggle navigation
> 7| |
8| span.icon-bar
9| |
10| span.icon-bar
It seems like there is some issue with line 7 in my nav partial. When I comment out "include .partials/_nav.jade" from layout.jade -- everything works.
This is the jade file:
nav#mainNav.navbar.navbar-default.navbar-fixed-top
.container-fluid
// Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display
.navbar-header
button.navbar-toggle.collapsed(type='button', data-toggle='collapse', data-target='#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1')
span.sr-only Toggle navigation
|
span.icon-bar
|
span.icon-bar
|
span.icon-bar
|
a.navbar-brand.page-scroll(href='/') FitLog.io
// Collect the nav links, forms, and other content for toggling
#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1.collapse.navbar-collapse
ul.nav.navbar-nav.navbar-right
li
a(href='/blog') Blog
li
a.page-scroll(href='#about') About
li
a.page-scroll(href='#services') Services
|
li
a.page-scroll(href='#portfolio') Portfolio
|
li
a.page-scroll(href='#contact') Contact
// /.navbar-collapse
// /.container-fluid
Is it an issue with the "Toggle navigation" word? I don't see what's happening.
1 Answer

Benjamin Singh
15,248 PointsThis is a very annoying problem.
It has something to do with those pipe symbols or/and your IDE or/and your indentation settings. When I clone the Repo everything works just fine and I have no errors. But when I copy/paste the code or write it by myself it doesn't work anymore (ERROR: unexpected text |
) even though everything is set up the same. Totally weird.
This worked for me: Delete all pipe symbols which have no text afterwards. In _nav.jade
that should be all pipe symbols.
I could not see any difference in the rendered HTML.
Hope it works for you.