First Field is Empty Error

Card Design
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Hello. I’m new-ish to Anki and was trying to make my cards more pleasing to look at (using a background picture and centering the text vertically on the screen). Somehow, I managed to mess up all of my cards… Now, no matter what card type I try, I’m always getting the “The first field is empty” error.

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Here is my card code for just my “Basic” card type:

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But again, I cannot make ANY card types without throwing this error now.

Thank you for your help.

Also, if you know why the cards aren’t vertically centering still, I’d appreciate the info.

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When you create a note type, you’re creating a set of fields and card types, and configuring the way your cards will look.

Once you’ve created a note type, you can start adding cards using that note type by adding content to the fields. It you try to add a card without any info in the first field, you’ll receive the message you’re referring to.

On the other hand, to center the cards vertically, you can use margin: 10% in the styling section of your template.

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The error message you’re getting may be a bug in an add-on - please follow the steps on When problems occur - Frequently Asked Questions