FreeMarker: Basic Building Blocks

There are 3 basic building blocks in FreeMarker.

 

Interpolations

Interpolations are represented by ${…}, FreeMarker will replace it with the actual value coming from the model object.

 

FreeMarker Template tags

These are instructions given to FreeMarker. Built-in template tags start with # and User defined tags start with @.

 

Example Of Built-in Tags

#if, #else, #list

 

Comments

Comments are used to document your ftl file. Comments are delimited <#-- and -->

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