# Hugo won't pick up list template for a type

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-wont-pick-up-list-template-for-a-type/9031>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 29, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-wont-pick-up-list-template-for-a-type/9031 "2017-10-29T14:23:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Chris](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-wont-pick-up-list-template-for-a-type/9031/1 "2017-10-29T14:23:39Z")

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Hi,

I’m struggling with type templates. Specifically, I’m struggling with the list.html template for a type. When I display a page for a specific type, e.g. article, it renders from the article/single.html page, which is what I expect. But, when I go to article page, it is rendering from the \_default/list.html

My layouts structure is…

```
layouts
    _default
        list.html
        single.html
    article
        list.html
        single.html
    service
        list.html
        single.html

```

Each of the above .html files contains the full html for the page. E.g. article/single.html contains…

```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    {{ partial "head.html" . }}

<body>

    <div class="outerWrapper">

        {{ partial "header.html" . }}

        {{ partial "menu.html" . }}

        <div class="innerWrapper">
             <p>This is article single</p>
             {{ .Content }}

        </div>

  </div>

  {{ partial "footer.html" . }}

</body>

</html>

```

I know which file it’s being picked up from as I’ve included a line in the html to say what the file is. E.g.

> This is article single

or

> We're in default/list.html

I guess I’m not that far off as Hugo is picking up type/single.html, but I just don’t understand why it’s not picking up article/list.html

My site is on GitHub. [https://github.com/ChrisHAdams/Lucent](https://github.com/ChrisHAdams/Lucent)

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**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-wont-pick-up-list-template-for-a-type/9031/2 "2017-10-29T14:32:15Z")

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You need to move that template from `/layouts/article/list.html` to `/layouts/section/article.html`

Same thing for `service`

Read the Hugo template look up order in the Docs.

Whenever you need to have a custom layout for a section it always goes under`/layouts/section/section-name.html`

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**Author:** ![Chris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Chris](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-wont-pick-up-list-template-for-a-type/9031/3 "2017-10-29T14:51:14Z")

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@alexandros Hi - Yes, that was it. Now working as I need. Many thanks for the prompt solution. I like Hugo but was struggling with this and was close to just crafting the site in html. Again, many thanks.