The Syntax

What a tag looks like.

All Statamic tags are delimited by double curly braces: {{ }}. Whitespace before or after the braces is allowed in most cases. The braces, however, must stay together.

All of these are examples of valid Statamic tags:

{{ stag }}  # our favorite way
{{stag}}
{{stag }}
{{ stag}}
{{
   stag
}}

These tags are not valid:

{{ st ag }}  # don't use spaces within the tag name
{ {stag} }   # curly braces *must* stay together

Tags are Case Sensitive

Tags in Statamic are all case sensitive, meaning that {{ title }} and {{ Title }} are two completely separate tags.

All of Statamic’s functionality where it uses variables that you’ve set to do something (for example, title to name your pages, or _layout and _template to change the look of your page) will be looking for all-lowercase names.

When defining your tags, we recommend only using lowercase variable names so that you don’t get confused later on.