Ace Templates

In addition to Go templates and Amber templates, Hugo supports the powerful Ace templates.

For template documentation, follow the links from the Ace project.

• Ace templates must be named with the ace-suffix, e.g. list.ace
• It’s possible to use both Go templates and Ace templates side-by-side, and include one into the other
• Full Go template syntax support, including all the useful helper funcs
• Partials can be included both with the Ace and the Go template syntax:
  • = include partials/foo.html .¹
  • {{ partial "foo" . }}

One noticeable difference between Ace and the others is the inheritance support through base and inner templates.

In Hugo the base template will be chosen with the same ruleset as for Go templates.

.: index.ace

./blog: single.ace baseof.ace

./_default: baseof.ace list.ace single.ace single-baseof.ace ```

Some examples for the layout files above:

• Home page: ./index.ace + ./_default/baseof.ace
• Single page in the blog section: ./blog/single.ace + ./blog/baseof.ace
• Single page in another section: ./_default/single.ace + ./_default/single-baseof.ace
• Taxonomy page in any section: ./_default/list.ace + ./_default/baseof.ace

Note: In most cases one baseof.ace in _default will suffice. Note: An Ace template without a reference to a base section, e.g. = content, will be handled as a standalone template.