How to use a Layout file in Layout Folder in Shopify
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Liquid has been trusted by a lot of web developers because of its multiple functions. Thanks to Liquid, you can upload dynamic content by using tags, filters, and arrays. In fact, tags have many interesting features that assist you in posting a variety of content. In this tutorial, we will dig deep into layout in theme tags.
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What is Liquid and Liquid tags
There are three types in Liquid codes including objects, tags, and filters. Liquid use objects to show where to display content on a page. Double curly braces denote objects and variable names. Filters change a Liquid object output. Tags create logic and control flow for a template. Tags begin with two curly braces and percent signs. Tags can be divided into three types: control flow, iteration, and variable assignment.
Tags have four types: control flow, iteration, theme, and variable. Today, we focus on theme tags. Theme tags have three main functions including outputting template-specific HTML markup, telling the theme which layout and snippets to use and splitting a returned array into multiple pages.
In theme tags, you can use comment, include, form, layout, paginate, raw, section, and style. The tutorial guides you to use the layout file in the layout folder.
How to use a layout file in layout folder
Layout template starts with {% layout ‘alternate’ %} to signify that you are alternating layout file from the layout of your theme. In case you don’t define an alternate layout, the theme.template template file is used by default. Let’s take a look at the example below:
Load the layout/full-width.liquid template
{% layout 'full-width' %}
If you do not want to use no layout file, you can specify none as the layout. Just by doing a simple step, you can get rid of the layout file.
Render the template file without using a layout
{% layout none %}
Conclusion
In conclusion, theme tags have three main features that support the flow of content on your website. Layout belongs to theme tags. Layout file is used to tell which layout you are using. We hope that this tutorial is helpful and you can comment to point out your difficulties then we will address them.
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