# Output formats - any help yet?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/output-formats-any-help-yet/6611>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/output-formats-any-help-yet/6611 "2017-05-17T18:57:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/output-formats-any-help-yet/6611/9 "2017-05-18T14:05:26Z")

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Ok, so I’ve made some progress. I created /layouts/\_default/single.json. With my content page saying it outputs just JSON, my assumption is that it would load this template automatically. Now when I run my request, I don’t get the regular HTML output, I get absolutely nothing. So I think I’m on the right track, but can you explain why nothing is being shown?

My template is just this for now:

hELLO  
{{ .Content }}

which I know isn’t valid JSON output, but for now I just want to _see_ my output - I’ll make it real later.

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