{extends}

{extends} tags are used in child templates in template inheritance for extending parent templates. For details see section of Template Inheritance.

• The `{extends}` tag must be on the first line of the template.
• If a child template extends a parent template with the `{extends}` tag it may contain only `{block}` tags. Any other template content is ignored.
• Use the syntax for template resources to extend files outside the $template_dir directory.

Attributes

| Attribute | Required | Description | |-----------|----------|-------------------------------------------------| | file | Yes | The name of the template file which is extended |

> Note > > When extending a variable parent like {extends file=$parent_file}, > make sure you include $parent_file in the > $compile_id. Otherwise, Smarty cannot > distinguish between different $parent_files.

Examples

{extends file='parent.tpl'}
{extends 'parent.tpl'}  {short-hand}

See also Template Inheritance and {block}.