# Baseof.html, block templates and list-types results in empty pages
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**Created:** [February 26, 2017, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/baseof-html-block-templates-and-list-types-results-in-empty-pages/5612 "2017-02-26T07:34:20Z")\
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**Author:**  [@KaiOelfke](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/KaiOelfke)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/baseof-html-block-templates-and-list-types-results-in-empty-pages/5612/8 "2017-06-30T13:08:24Z")
I am new to Hugo and static sites and encountered a couple of problems usually due to misunderstandings and after some research I could fix it myself. However I am struggling with an issue seemingly related to this.
I want to customize a specific taxonomy terms page with `layouts/taxonomy/country.terms.html`. I also have a general `layouts/_default/terms.html`.
`/countries/` renders the general `terms.html` based site fine, if I temporarily change the filename of `country.terms.html` to e.g. `test.terms.html`. However as long as I have `country.terms.html` I just get an empty page.
And it’s related to this code:
```
{{ define "title"}} {{ .Title}} {{end}}
{{ define "header"}}
{{ partial "header" . }}
{{end}}
{{ define "main" }}
custom-html-content-here
{{ end }}
{{ define "footer"}}
{{ partial "footer" . }}
{{end}}
```
This code works everywhere else including `terms.html`. I also don’t get an empty page, if I change `country.terms.html` to e.g.
```
{{ define "title"}} {{ .Title}} {{end}}
{{ define "header"}}
{{ partial "header" . }}
{{end}}
{{ define "main" }}
custom-html-content-here
{{ end }}
Test 123
{{ define "footer"}}
{{ partial "footer" . }}
{{end}}
```
I will see the Test 123. Rendering partials also works, when outside the `{{ define }}` context. So I can create a barebone custom country terms html with the partials without defines, but then the `baseof.html`from the theme is missing.
I read in the documentation about templates, partials, block, themes and so on, but I could not find a solution so far. Any ideas what I do wrong?
Thank you.
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