Handlebars not parsed

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Hello,

I’m trying to adjust the size of an image with code between handlebars but this code is not parsed/processed and then code with handlebars appears as is in the html.

I also tried with this code {{ .PublishDate.Format “January 2, 2006” }}, grabbed in the documentation, but it also appears as a text (between

tags) in the html.

I can’t find information about that can someone help me ?

thanks

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Please show your code. Literal descriptions without it don’t help. (I don’t even know what you mean with “handlebars”).

Montre le code, stp. Si non, on ne peut pas t’aider.

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That’s a misundestanding. I tried to use {{ }} in the markdown file.

I’m discovering it’s only possible in the layouts files.

Thanks.

(Merci)

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That’s why I asked you to show your code.

The issue is not with {{…}} in your Markdown file, but what these curly braces contain.

  • In the form of {{%…%}} or {{<...>}}, they are used to call a shortcode, which is perfectly fine in Markdown, and Hugo contains some pre-defined shortcodes.
  • Without the % signs, they are used to executing template code, and that is only possible in … well, templates, aka HTML files.

In Hugo parlance, layouts is a directory, the files are templates. Shortcodes etc. are detailed in the documentation.

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Thanks for the more accurate explanation. I see better how the engine works.

I’ve thought it was working a bit like jsp/php … and so be able to code in the content files, pushing to later templating.

Nice design which forces to be “clean” up front.

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Fortunately not :wink: The most important difference being that you get static HTML, Hugo doesn’t bother with runtime stuff.