Documentation Pages
HTML
Template Languages:
| Eleventy Short Name | File Extension | NPM Package |
|---|---|---|
html | .html | N/A |
HTML files can be optionally pre-processed with an additional template engine. This can be configured on a per-template basis or globally. Read more at Changing a Template’s Rendering Engine.
Using the Same Input and Output Directories #
Careful with the HTML template type when using the same --input and --output directory (this is not the default).
If you run eleventy more than once, it’ll try to process your output files too.
$ eleventy --input=. --output=. --formats=md,html
Writing ./README/index.html from ./README.md
$ eleventy --input=. --output=. --formats=md,html
Writing ./README/index.html from ./README.md
Writing ./README/index-o.html from ./README/index.html
If you’re going to use --formats=html, it’s probably best not using the same input and output directories.
Moreover, you may notice in the above output that the second template wrote to index-o.html. When the input and output directories are the same and the source template is named index.html, we add an -o suffix to avoid overwriting itself. This is a special case that only applies to index.html filenames. You can customize the -o suffix with the htmlOutputSuffix configuration option.