What is the difference between {{ and {{-

zoliky · November 26, 2020, 5:11pm

I’ve noticed in themes that sometimes the {{- … -}} dash is added to the curly braces. What purpose do they serve? Are the dashes important to be added?

alexandros · November 26, 2020, 5:19pm

The dashes remove whitespace in Go templates. See:

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