The layout is always displayed. If you only want your custom text displayed when a checkbox is checked use an IF substitution around your layout. Again, see the substitution tutorial for details (IF usage examples at bottom of tutorial).

Hello, actually what I will be doing is using the text area fields to display all the info. The checkbox only opens them to input the text. I'll add the checkbox details as custom text in the profile value layout in the text area.

So I am trying this on one but no output is showing up on my profile.

I have the tab with the custom HTML field set to public, I can see the title and description on the profile so I know it's rendering the tab, etc.

The custom HTML field has this [cb:usertab tab="25" formatting="divs" /] the tab ID is 25. This seems to work as you indicated with HTML output

However, I am not able to get the profile edit to work. I have tried reading the substitution instructions but nothing seems to correlate to my issue.

Hello, this is exactly my intention. I want to layout the profile view for public user to see what they have done in their profile bassed on the various tabs they filled out during the application.

So the edit profile is where it's broken up into tabs and choices for organizational reasons. Then the half dozen or so choices they fill in will be displayed in a single area on the frontend to the public.

Most of the information will be text entered in the text area that opens up when a checkbox is checked and the editor field opens and is required. So I want to use this field not the checkbox to be shown if it's got anything entered into it. I will add custom text to fill in the rest but cannot figure out how to show this. I am not understanding the values to put in. The screenshots were what I have and does not work. If I add anything outside the [cb:if cb_checkbox="1"][value] This is my custom text![/cb:if] it shows up on the frontend but nothing inside of these does.

So how can I set the text area to if and only be shown if something is in there?

Thank you

So I seemed to have found some clue on my own.

[cb:if cb_category1a="1"][value] <p>This is Checkbox</p>[cb:userdata field="cb_cat1anarrative" /][/cb:if]

My last question is how could I show a field in a tab only if something in that tab is checked? I need to show one custom HTML field if something in that tab is checked. I need this for a description in my profile layout to describe the category. If they select no items in that category I do not want to show it. This would be very helpful for me.

Thanks