Having the same issue
I have an optional field in my form called Notes
textarea "Notes" !
Which is inserted in to a table on the page using pagemod
<pagemod training_record output_before>| @@auto_inc@@ | @@Date completed@@ | @@Training Topic@@ | @@Attendees@@ | @@Training Result@@ | @@Notes@@ | @@meta.datetime@@ | @@meta.user.name@@ |
</pagemod>
but when there are no notes added it shows the placeholder instead of a blank cell in the table