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title: Variables and Params
linktitle: Overview
description: Page-, file-, taxonomy-, and site-level variables and parameters available in templates.
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [variables and params]
tags: [variables,params,values,globals]
draft: false
weight: 01
aliases: [/templates/variables/]
toc: false
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[Go templates][], the backbone of Hugo templating, are context based, and Hugo makes a large number of values available to you as you're creating views for your website. The following variables and params provide convenient means to displaying your content with Hugo's powerful templating engine.

[Go templates]: /templates/go-templates/ "Understand context in Go templates by learning the language's fundamental templating functions."