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Again, for posterity’s sake…

In the video I’m watching, “A Crash Course on Go Templates”, the presenter has a very good explanation of the difference between the “.” (“dot”) and “$” (“dollar”) symbols as used within Hugo/Go Templates:

A Crash Course on Go Templates: time code = 13min/10sec.: the gist of it is:

BOTH . and $ (NOTE: just $, the dollar sign on its own and not $someVar) refer to the context variable that is passed into a given template. The difference is, the . can change what it’s pointing/referring to within a template based upon whether it is being used in EITHER a with or range “action”. For example, the value that . is pointing to can change within with and range template actions. On the other hand, the $ symbol ALWAYS refers to the ORIGINAL context that was passed into a template and it never changes.

Examples:

file: layouts/_default/baseof.html has calls a “partial” with the file name, “partials/some-partial.html” like so:

{{- /* file: layouts/_default/baseof.html */ -}}
{{ $myFullName := slice "Abraa" "Cadabra" "Dobrinda"  }}
{{ partial "some-partial.html" $myFullName }}

then, within partials/some-partial.html

{{- /* `.` refers to the slice, `$myFullName` that was passed into the partial template. */ -}}
{{ delimit . " " }}<br>{{- /* Outputs "Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda"  */ -}}

<!-- `$` ALSO refers to the slice, `$myFullName` that was passed into the partial template.  */ -}}
{{ delimit $ " " }}<br>{{- /* Outputs the same as `.` "Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda"  */ -}}

{{ range . }}
  {{- /*
    In here, the `.` is referring to each individual element that the slice $myFullName has in it.
    Thus, it will render "Abraa" then "Cadabra" then "Dobrinda" individually. NOTE: here, the `.` "dot"
    context IS NO LONGER A SLICE and thus, cannot be used with the "collections.Delimit" function.
  */ -}}
  {{ . }}<br>
  {{- /*
    Conversely, the `$` STILL refers to the original/"root level context" that was passed in, namely:
    $myFullName. Thus, it will render "Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda" as a full string for every iteration
    of the range's loop.
  */ -}}
  {{ delimit $ " " }}<br>
{{ end}}

So the total output of of layouts/some-partial.html should look something like this:

Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda<br>

Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda<br>

Abraa<br>
Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda<br>
Cadabra<br>
Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda<br>
Dobrinda<br>
Abraa Cadabra Dobrinda<br>

I hope this helps someone else… I think it would be helpful to move this reply into it’s own thread but am unsure of how or whether to do that.

Cheers!