Shortcodes - template

[alexandros]

@codingforfun

Is template actually in the Hugo documentation? It appears to be similar to partial but I can’t find it anywhere in the documentation.

The template function is documented over here:

Templating

For a discussion about template vis-à-vis partial see this topic:

{{ template }} vs. {{ partial }}

I guess this is a question for @bep I’ve been using {{ define "template" }} within some of my partials (usually to handle iterating over a list of mixed content blocks each of which has a different template … I find this cleaner than lots of {{ if }} {{else}} statements intermixed with HTML. I noticed today that those template definitions are not scoped to that particular partial’s file and can be used from other partials (acting, from what I can tell, identically to a partial). I was wonderi…