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title: Templates
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description: Go templating, template types and lookup order, shortcodes, and data.
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A template is an HTML file with [template actions](/getting-started/glossary/#template-action), located within the layouts directory of a project, theme, or module. Visit the topics below, in the order presented, to understand template selection and creation.