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1 Template Element - #template {}
The template element allows you to specify html chrome for your page (header, footer, columns, etc.) while using a special placeholder syntax to call back to your page or any Erlang module.
To specify a placeholder 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 currently Nitrogen page. The function must return either one or more Nitrogen elements, an Erlang string, or an Erlang binary.
If the args are variables 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.
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.
- bindings - (Bindings, as expected by erl_eval)
- A list of
variable bindings to be used for arguments specified in the
template.
Example value:
[{'MyArg1', "Hello"}, {'MyArg2', "World"}]