Update documentation for HTML templates style
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We want our rendered output to have as little unnecessary whitespace as
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possible, so that pages load quickly. To achieve that we use Tera's
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[whitespace control] features. At the end of most lines, we put an empty comment
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tag with the whitespace control characters: `{#- -#}`. This causes all
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whitespace between the end of the line and the beginning of the next, including
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indentation, to be omitted on render. Sometimes we want to preserve a single
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space. In those cases we put the space at the end of the line, followed by
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`{# -#}`, which is a directive to remove following whitespace but not preceding.
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We also use the whitespace control characters in most instances of tags with
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control flow, for example `{%- if foo -%}`.
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[whitespace control] features. By default, whitespace characters are removed
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around jinja tags (`{% %}` for example). At the end of most lines, we put an
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empty comment tag: `{# #}`. This causes all whitespace between the end of the
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line and the beginning of the next, including indentation, to be omitted on
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render. Sometimes we want to preserve a single space. In those cases we put the
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space at the end of the line, followed by `{#+ #}`, which is a directive to
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remove following whitespace but not preceding. We also use the whitespace
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control characters in most instances of tags with control flow, for example
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`{% if foo %}`.
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[whitespace control]: https://tera.netlify.app/docs/#whitespace-control
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We want our templates to be readable, so we use indentation and newlines
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liberally. We indent by four spaces after opening an HTML tag _or_ a Tera
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liberally. We indent by four spaces after opening an HTML tag _or_ a Jinja
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tag. In most cases an HTML tag should be followed by a newline, but if the
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tag has simple contents and fits with its close tag on a single line, the
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contents don't necessarily need a new line.
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Tera templates support quite sophisticated control flow. To keep our templates
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Askama templates support quite sophisticated control flow. To keep our templates
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simple and understandable, we use only a subset: `if` and `for`. In particular
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we avoid [assignments in the template logic](assignments) and [Tera
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we avoid [assignments in the template logic](assignments) and [Askama
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macros](macros). This also may make things easier if we switch to a different
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Jinja-style template system, like Askama, in the future.
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[assignments]: https://tera.netlify.app/docs/#assignments
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[macros]: https://tera.netlify.app/docs/#macros
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[assignments]: https://djc.github.io/askama/template_syntax.html#assignments
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[macros]: https://djc.github.io/askama/template_syntax.html#macros
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