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Template Element - #template {}

The template element allows you to specify html chrome for your page (header, footer, columns, etc.) while using a special callout syntax to call back to your page or any Erlang module.

To specify a callout in the html template file, use the form:

  [[[Module:Function(Args)]]]

Module can be any module, or can be the atom 'page' to refer to the current Nitrogen page module. The function must return either one or more Nitrogen elements, an Erlang string, or an Erlang binary.

If the args are identifed like Erlang variables (capitalized first letter) such as MyArg1 (as opposed to a static value such as 5), then the template element will look in its bindings property for a matching element.

It's also possible to specify alias module references to other modules. For example, the default module alias is actually [{page, wf:page_module()}], which basically means "If you encounter page:function(Args), replace page with the current page's module."

Usage

   #template { files="./priv/templates/myTemplate.html", bindings=[
     {'Binding1', binding1},
     {'Binding2', binding2}
   ]}

Attributes

  • file (String) - Path to an html template file, relative to the directory from which Erlang was started.

  • from_type (atom or string) - What is the file type you're loading (default: html)

  • to_type (atom or string) - What is the format we should convert to (default: html)

  • options (proplist) - This is a list of options to pass to pandoc for conversion.

  • callouts (boolean) - This disables or enables callouts. If set to true, the callouts [[[Module:Function()]]]`` will be parsed. If false, callouts will not be parsed or processed. (Default: true`)

  • bindings (Bindings, as expected by erl_eval) - A list of variable bindings to be used for arguments specified in the template. Example: [{'MyArg1', "Hello"}, {'MyArg2', "World"}]

  • module_aliases (proplist of {alias, actual_module} pairs) - When alias is encountered as the module of a Module:Function(Args) call, replace alias with actual_module.

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