Empty side when using {{ define "main" }} in home.html

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I don’t even know anymore.
I try creating a theme, so the layout directory is under themes/ and the theme is configured in config.toml.
With the following files and commands, I always get only an empty page:

I tested:

  • In content/ a home. md and/or index. md with and without Front Matter
  • hugo server with -DEF, --diableFastRender --disableFastRender --ignoreCache --noHTTPCache
  • Multiple browsers and clearing the browser cache.

My files/directories

The layouts/ directory

├── _defaults/
│   ├── baseof.html
│   ├── list.html
│   └── single.html
├── 404.html
└── home.html

The _defaults/baseof.html file

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
	{{ block "main" . }}{{ end }}
</body>
</html>

The layouts/home.html file

{{ define "main" }}
	<h1>Home</h1>
{{ end }}

The rendered website when inspected in the browser

<pre>
</pre>

404.html, list.html and single.html are empty.

Hugo Version: Hugo Static Site Generator v0.74.3/extended linux/amd64

When I remove {{ define "main" }} and leave only home.html the content is displayed, but of course the content of baseof is not.
The only solution I found is to create a second baseof.html file in layouts. But with only a baseof.html in the _defaults directory the problem occurs, although both are present in the lookup order.

Am I misunderstanding the lookup order and use of block/define or is this a bug?

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The directory name should be _default not _defaults.

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Oh, my goodness. I literally facepalmed.
I didn’t notice this the whole time and I tried to make the possibilities for mistakes smaller and smaller, by removing unnecessary files…
Thank you so much. That was a really dumb mistake…

Edit: I think deleting this topic would be appropriate, since the solution to a spelling mistake will probably help nobody.

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