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**Category:** support\
**Created:** [July 21, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/override-of-a-specific-index-html/39618 "2022-07-21T01:43:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@Hernies](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Hernies)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/override-of-a-specific-index-html/39618/1 "2022-07-21T01:43:01Z")
Hi!
I’m trying to selectively override risottos default layout for lists. I want to format my /posts/\_index.md in my own way. But without overriding the rest of the indexes. I’ve read up on [hugo’s lookup order](https://gohugo.io/templates/lookup-order/) which seems the most relevant document regarding my question. But I cannot find a solution to my issue.
I’ve thought of using hugo’s variables and create a generic index that will only “override” (aka format an index differently) if some conditions are met (page is an index && page is a post).
But I cannot help but wonder if some solution such as creating a folder inside layout that would contain said specific index.html would be enough, ie:
If content/posts is my directory it would look like: …/themes/layout/posts/index.html.
I quite recently became a user so I’m reading on lots of documentation but I couldnt find out an answer anywhere. I’ve also tried to implement it on my own but didnt manage to do it correctly (it compiled but my results werent satisfactory). I also tried following the [List Pages Templates](https://gohugo.io/templates/lists/) tutorial but it too wasnt what I wanted to do.
I hope I explained myself clearly and my question wasn’t too basic, thank you for reading!
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**Author:**  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/override-of-a-specific-index-html/39618/2 "2022-07-21T01:56:00Z")
Create layouts/posts/list.html to override the posts section page.
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**Author:**  [@Hernies](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Hernies)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/override-of-a-specific-index-html/39618/3 "2022-07-21T01:59:49Z")
Thank you so much! You have no idea how much time I’ve spent scratching my head on this.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/override-of-a-specific-index-html/39618/4 "2022-07-23T02:00:31Z")
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