Title: Empty Template Message
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Empty Template Message

 *  [sildona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sildona/)
 * (@sildona)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-template-message/)
 * When I select the HTML form, I receive an error message.
 * Error: [cfdb-html] has empty Template. It will not output anything.
 * Can someone point me to or show me an example of how do fix this?
 * I found a “template” example on the user-guide page, but I have no idea where
   to past this? In a post? In CSS?
 * [cfdb-html form=”blogs” show=”name,title,blogtext” limit=”10″ orderby=”Submitted
   desc”]
 * <div class=”your-headline-style”>${name}: ${title}</div>
 * <div class=”your-content-style”>${blogtext}</div>
 * [/cfdb-html]
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Michael Simpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msimpson/)
 * (@msimpson)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-template-message/#post-3139229)
 * Put your short code in a page or post. Empty template means that there is nothing
   between the “[cfdb-html]” and “[/cfdb-html]” parts.
 *  Thread Starter [sildona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sildona/)
 * (@sildona)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-template-message/#post-3139252)
 * I actually got confused by the admin panel and did not realize that below the
   line on my browser there was a short-code creator for html-option.
 * So everything is working as expected. It just comes through with no formatting
   whatsoever. Although this seems like a good plugin, I was actually looking for
   an out-of-the-box solution that has at least some formatting or some examples
   I could modify or something.
 * Since I have a form that fills the database, it doesn’t matter what I have to
   display it.

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [sildona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sildona/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-template-message/#post-3139252)
 * Status: not resolved