silverbullet/website/Live Templates.md

Live Templates are a type of Blocks that render Templates written in Template Language inline in a page.

There are two variants of Live Templates:

• template: where the template is specified inline in a code block.
• include: where an external page (template) is included and rendered.

Template blocks are specified using Markdown‘s fenced code block notation using either template or include as its language.

Template

To specify a template to render inline, you can use the template block. The body is written in Template Language.

Today is {{today}}

Include

warning Deprecated, use templates instead Include template are primarily here to be a drop-in replacement for the old style template blocks, see below for a suggestion how to use those instead.

A template block is configured using YAML in its body. The following attributes are supported:

• page: the page to use as a template
• value: an (optional) value to pass to the template
• raw: a page reference to include in the page without processing it as a template.

Here’s an example using page:

page: "[[internal-template/today]]"

If you want to include another page (not necessarily a template). unprocessed (so without replacing template placeholders), you can use raw:

raw: "[[internal/test page]]"

Recommended alternative

Instead of using the include block we recommend you use a {{template([[template]])}} directive in a template instead as it is more flexible and more natural.

Look for yourself:

{{template([[internal-template/today]])}}