Oh My Posh custom theme backgound_template color being ignored

[mkanet]

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What happened?

Version: 14.9.2 (amd64) Windows 10 22H2 PowerShell 5.1

I made a simple custom theme based on existing Oh My Posh themes and documentation (see theme code section below). However, no matter what I do, I can't force the background_templates condition to use the specified color when the condition is met. In fact, any color I specify in the condition seems to be treated as a null value.

NOTE: The condition is detected correctly when the respective environment variable's value is detected... However, it is not changing the color of the first couple of segments to #ff0000 aka RED. It looks like it sets the color to NULL. There are no syntax errors. I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Expected behavior:

Actual Behavior:

Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've spent a great deal of time trying to get this to work before asking for help.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Theme

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "alignment": "left",
      "segments": [
        {
          "background": "#42E66C",
          "background_templates": [
            "{{ if eq .Env.ElevatedPINNotAuthorized \"True\" }} #ff0000 {{ end }}"
          ],
          "foreground": "#ffffff",
          "leading_diamond": "\ue0b6",
          "style": "diamond",
          "template": " {{ if .WSL }}WSL at {{ end }}{{.Icon}} ",
          "type": "os"
        },
        {
          "background": "#42E66C",
          "background_templates": [
            "{{ if eq .Env.ElevatedPINNotAuthorized \"True\" }} #ff0000 {{ end }}"
          ],
          "foreground": "#ffffff",
          "style": "powerline",
          "template": " {{ .Env.CyberCredential }} ",
          "type": "session"
        },
        {
          "background": "lightBlue",
          "foreground": "black",
          "powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
          "properties": {
            "style": "full"
          },
          "style": "powerline",
          "template": " \ue5ff {{ .Path }} ",
          "type": "path"
        },
        {
          "background": "#ec9706",
          "foreground": "#100e23",
          "leading_diamond": "<transparent,background>\ue0b0</>",
          "properties": {
            "always_enabled": true
          },
          "style": "diamond",
          "template": " \ufbab {{ .FormattedMs }}\u2800",
          "trailing_diamond": "\ue0b0",
          "type": "executiontime"
        }
      ],
      "type": "prompt"
    }
  ],
  "final_space": true,
  "version": 2
}

What OS are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Which shell are you using?

powershell

Log output

Please forgive me, I couldn't find in the documentation how to enable log output.  The only thing I could find was [debug prompt](https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/configuration/debug-prompt) code, didn't look like it applied to this case.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@mkanet your background template has a leading and trailing space in the resulting color string which evaluates as invalid. As we do not trim (and not plan to), removing the spaces will result in a working setup:

"background_templates": [
    "{{ if eq .Env.ElevatedPINNotAuthorized \"True\" }}#ff0000{{ end }}"
],

[mkanet]

@JanDeDobbeleer thank you so much for telling me what I did wrong. I'm embarrassed to say how much time I spent looking for the solution to this!

I really appreciate your hard work keeping Oh My Posh updated. It's my new favorite MS Terminal toy.

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