Using placeholders of Customer Store

A placeholder is a container for a specific data type, and it allows inserting data or interface elements in UI templates. Using placeholders simplifies the content management of the Customer Sore pages (see Managing information and auto-generated pages UI templates).

To use tags in placeholders, add | safe after the placeholder.

For example, for the product benefits in the Product showpage UI template:

<p>{{ benefit.description }}</p>

specify

<p>{{ benefit.description | safe }}</p>

By the application area, placeholders are divided into two classes:

  • Global placeholders that can be used in all UI templates.
  • Local placeholders that can be used only in a specific UI template.

By the data type, placeholders are divided into the following classes: