How does hugo know which layout to use?

[Leo_Merkel]

My experiences with Hugo's template lookup order

I just want to share some of my experiences by testing the lookup order for templates. I tested these and wrote them down the same time. Nevertheless I could be wrong in some cases. So if you have better solutions or remarks please don’t hesitate to share. In this example we work with a sample directory hugo-docs and different layout variants. For this purpose we create this directory (content/hugo-docs) and also create an index.md (note the spelling!) in this directory. This index.md will lat…

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