**Author:**  [@leela\_kumili](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leela_kumili)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/condition-in-html-action-section-not-working/133469/1 "2018-05-28T06:35:53Z")
Hi all,
I want to send email from x-pack watcher and content in email varies depending on values. I tried writing if else condition, its not evaluating the condition treating as a text.
Any idea how to do it?
"actions": {
"send\_email": {
"email": {
"profile": "standard",
"to": [
"xxxx@gmail.com"
],
"subject": " Alert",
"body": {
"html": "
Hi Team,
Here is comparison report of 'Add To Bag' trends form each source for past 2 hours:
{{#ctx.payload.\_value}} {{#Page}} {{#source}}**if({{percentage \< 0.0}})** {{/source}} {{/Page
}} {{/ctx.payload.\_value}}
| Application | Page | Sourcr | Earlier Count | Latest Count | Trending Up/Down |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|
| |
| {{App}} | {{page}} | {{src}} | {{earlier}} | {{latest}} | {{percentage}} |
For details refer to chart : \AddToBagTrends
"
}
}
}
}
I want to change color of percentage cell to red is less than 0 , to green if greater than zero.
But instead of evaluating the condition if printing as text replace {{percentage}} variable as text like this : -46.75156796093264 \< 0.0
Any idea how to tell watcher to evaluate the condition and not to treat as text.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/condition-in-html-action-section-not-working/133469/2 "2018-06-25T06:35:53Z")
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**Author:**  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/condition-in-html-action-section-not-working/133469/3 "2018-07-03T09:06:06Z")
hey,
mustache follows the principle of being a so-called logic less template language, trying not to have these kind of constructs. There are similar constructs though, see this page [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/search-template.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/search-template.html)
However, you might be better off using a `transform` in your action, that adds a new field called `color` and doing the calculation in the script to decide if color should be `red` or `green`.
Fore more information about transforms, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.3/transform-script.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.3/transform-script.html)
Hope this helps.