Html/template package
The Go html/template package parses and executes HTML templates with data substitutions, control logic, and contextual escaping of HTML-sensitive content.
Go in Practice, Second Edition
The Go html/template package generates HTML safely from templates containing data substitutions and control logic.
- How it is used
- Generates maintainable HTML responses by combining reusable markup, control logic, and Go data.
- How deep it goes
- Works through field substitution, contextual escaping, iteration, and template composition, then sketches more complex reuse patterns.
- Examples
- Uses an HTTP page handler, a comments iterator, shared head markup, and a base layout with overridable blocks.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch with html/template to render data into HTTP pages and reuse markup across templates.
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Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects
html/template is Go's standard-library package for parsing and executing HTML templates with contextual escaping of HTML-sensitive content.
- How it is used
- Renders an HTML habits page for a browser-facing HTTP server backed by a gRPC service.
- How deep it goes
- Works through parsing, execution, actions, embedded files and reusable templates; does not explain escaping internals.
- Examples
- Uses a habit-count page, an extracted habit list item, a directory of embedded templates and a contrasting CSS template.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch: parse and execute an embedded HTML page, then split repeated markup into a named template.
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Related concepts
- text/template packagealternative to · The Go text/template package generates text from templates containing data substitutions and control logic without HTML-specific contextual escaping.
- nested templateused by · A nested template is a template that includes or invokes another template as part of rendering output.
- standard librarypart of · A standard library is a collection of reusable modules, types, functions, APIs, and other facilities distributed with a programming language implementation or platform.
- template.HTMLused by · template.HTML is a Go html/template type representing trusted HTML content that is intended to bypass normal contextual escaping.
- HTMLuses · HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language for structuring content and elements in web documents.
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