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Hugo uses the excellent go html/template library for its template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website.

Go templates are lightweight but extensible. Hugo has added the following functions to the basic template logic.

Go documentation for the built-in functions can be found here

General

isset

Return true if the parameter is set. Takes either a slice, array or channel and an index or a map and a key as input.

eg. {{ if isset .Params "project_url" }} {{ index .Params "project_url" }}{{ end }}

echoParam

If parameter is set, then echo it.

eg. {{echoParam .Params "project_url" }}

first

Slices an array to only the first X elements.

eg. {{ range first 10 .Data.Pages }} {{ .Render "summary"}} {{ end }}

Math

add

Adds two integers.

eg {{add 1 2}} -> 3

sub

Subtracts two integers.

eg {{sub 3 2}} -> 1

div

Divides two integers.

eg {{div 6 3}} -> 2

mul

Multiplies two integers.

eg {{mul 2 3}} -> 6

mod

Modulus of two integers.

eg {{mod 15 3}} -> 0

modBool

Boolean of modulus of two integers. true if modulus is 0.

eg {{modBool 15 3}} -> true

Strings

urlize

Takes a string and sanitizes it for usage in urls, converts spaces to "-".

eg. <a href="/tags/{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a>

safeHtml

Declares the provided string as "safe" so go templates will not filter it.

eg. {{ .Params.CopyrightHTML | safeHtml }}

lower

Convert all characters in string to lowercase.

eg {{lower "BatMan"}} -> "batman"

upper

Convert all characters in string to uppercase.

eg {{upper "BatMan"}} -> "BATMAN"

title

Convert all characters in string to titlecase.

eg {{title "BatMan"}} -> "Batman"

highlight

Take a string of code and a language, uses pygments to return the syntax highlighted code in html. Used in the highlight shortcode.