html/template

Web
import "html/template"

Implements data-driven templates for generating HTML output safe against code injection.

Example

package main

import (
    "html/template"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    tmpl := template.Must(template.New("page").Parse("<h1>{{.Title}}</h1>"))
    tmpl.Execute(os.Stdout, struct{ Title string }{"Hello"})
}

Key Types & Functions

TemplateMustNewParseExecuteFuncMap

About html/template

The html/template package (imported as html/template) belongs to the Web category of Go packages. Implements data-driven templates for generating HTML output safe against code injection.

Go's standard library is one of the language's greatest strengths, providing production-ready implementations for networking, cryptography, encoding, I/O, and more. The html/template package follows Go's philosophy of simplicity and composability — small, focused packages that combine through interfaces like io.Reader and io.Writer.

When using html/template in production, follow Go best practices: handle errors explicitly, use context for cancellation and timeouts, prefer composition over inheritance, and write table-driven tests. The Go documentation at pkg.go.dev provides comprehensive API references and examples for every exported type and function.

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