Whitespace control

In Liquid, you can include a hyphen in your tag syntax {{-, -}}, {%-, and -%} to strip whitespace from the left or right side of a rendered tag.

Normally, even if it doesn’t output text, any line of Liquid in your template will still output a blank line in your rendered HTML:

Input

{% assign my_variable = "tomato" %}
{{ my_variable }}

Notice the blank line before “tomato” in the rendered template:

Output

tomato

By including hyphens in your assign tag, you can strip the generated whitespace from the rendered template:

Input

{%- assign my_variable = "tomato" -%}
{{ my_variable }}

Output

tomato

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