# Curated Newsletter Sections
### Overview
Curated Newsletters can optionally have defined sections of content. This is purely to make adding and editing content in the FeedOtter UI more pleasant.
Sections are defined in the \ of your HTML email, similar to custom fields.
```html
Header for Section 1 Post
[[post.post_title]]
Header for Section 2 Posts
[[post.post_title]]
Header for Section 3 Posts
This will be hidden if there are no posts selected for Section 3 in the UI.
[[post.post_title]]
```
### Section Properties
* prettyName - The label that will show in the FeedOtter UI.
* name - The technical name you will use to refer to this section in code.
* max - The maximum number of posts allowed in this section.
* autoload - Supports "true" or "false". If "true" a feed is required in the preloadFeed parameter.
* preloadFeed - Expects a valid RSS feed url.
Here is an example of a Curated email with its sections marked:
By dividing a curated newsletter into sections we can give the email editor a better interface in FeedOtter to drag and drop articles into each section individually.
### Hiding a Section When There is No Content
You may wish to use an IF statement to show or hide a section if there is no content in a section. Here's a code example:
```
//display section content loop here....
```
What this conditional is telling FeedOtter is that if your featured section does contain content, this area of the HTML email template should also be displayed in your newsletter.
### Autoload and Preload
When using sections you can choose to "preload" content directly from an RSS feed into a section. This can be useful if you have one or more sections in your newsletter where you want content to prefill automatically when a new issue is created.
To prefill a section:
* Set "autoload" = "true"
* Set "preloadFeed" = The full URL of your RSS feed.
Changing the Section 1 values to preload 1 post from the FeedOtter blog automatically
```
{"prettyName": "Section 1", "name":"section1", "max":1,"autoload":"true", "preloadFeed":"https://www.feedotter.com/feed"},
```
{% hint style="info" %}
Place your updated HTML email code in the Setup area of your newsletter. Autoloading content only works when creating new Issues via the the New Issue button.
{% endhint %}
