Conditional cards are amazing. I don’t need to see all the information in my dashboards all the time, but like to hide a lot of it when it’s not currently important.
However, for a long time there have been display issues related to conditional cards. Issue 6632 has been open for more than two years, and the actual problem is even older.
This issue leads to empty columns on dashboards when a card is hidden.
To visualize the problem, consider this sample code (add it to the end of your dashboard yaml in the raw configuration editor to create a demo view):
- theme: Backend-selected
title: demo
path: demo
badges: []
cards:
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- type: conditional
conditions:
- entity: sun.sun
state: always_hidden
card:
type: entities
entities:
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
- entity: sun.sun
Next, issue 2167 is describing a slightly less extreme bug which is probably connected to the one above and leads to unwanted whitespace in vertical stacks when a card is conditionally hidden.
Created in 2018 (!), this is the oldest open issue for the Home Assistant frontend, begging the question: WTH is this still not fixed?
I am sure that I’m not the only one who would love to get my dashboards to look the way they were supposed to in the first place.
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