diff --git a/content/en/functions/with.md b/content/en/functions/with.md
index 3fad8bd9c..a5c27d4f3 100644
--- a/content/en/functions/with.md
+++ b/content/en/functions/with.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: with
 # linktitle: with
-description: Rebinds the context (`.`) within its scope and skips the block if the variable is absent.
+description: Rebinds the context (`.`) within its scope and skips the block if the variable is absent or empty.
 godocref:
 date: 2017-02-01
 publishdate: 2017-02-01
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ relatedfuncs: []
 deprecated: false
 ---
 
-An alternative way of writing an `if` statement and then referencing the same value is to use `with` instead. `with` rebinds the context (`.`) within its scope and skips the block if the variable is absent or unset.
+An alternative way of writing an `if` statement and then referencing the same value is to use `with` instead. `with` rebinds the context (`.`) within its scope and skips the block if the variable is absent, unset or empty.
+
+The set of *empty* values is defined by [the Go templates package](https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/). Empty values include `false`, the number zero, and the empty string.
+
+If you want to render a block if an index or key is present in a slice, array, channel or map, regardless of whether the value is empty, you should use [`isset`](/functions/isset) instead.
 
 The following example checks for a [user-defined site variable](/variables/site/) called `twitteruser`. If the key-value is not set, the following will render nothing: