hugo/docs/content/en/methods/page/RenderShortcodes.md
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---
title: RenderShortcodes
description: Renders all shortcodes in the content of the given page, preserving the surrounding markup.
categories: []
keywords: []
params:
functions_and_methods:
returnType: template.HTML
signatures: [PAGE.RenderShortcodes]
---
Use this method in shortcode templates to compose a page from multiple content files, while preserving a global context for footnotes and the table of contents.
For example:
```go-html-template {file="layouts/_shortcodes/include.html" copy=true}
{{ with .Get 0 }}
{{ with $.Page.GetPage . }}
{{- .RenderShortcodes }}
{{ else }}
{{ errorf "The %q shortcode was unable to find %q. See %s" $.Name . $.Position }}
{{ end }}
{{ else }}
{{ errorf "The %q shortcode requires a positional parameter indicating the logical path of the file to include. See %s" .Name .Position }}
{{ end }}
```
Then call the shortcode in your Markdown:
```text {file="content/about.md"}
{{%/* include "/snippets/services" */%}}
{{%/* include "/snippets/values" */%}}
{{%/* include "/snippets/leadership" */%}}
```
Each of the included Markdown files can contain calls to other shortcodes.
## Shortcode notation
In the example above it's important to understand the difference between the two delimiters used when calling a shortcode:
- `{{</* myshortcode */>}}` tells Hugo that the rendered shortcode does not need further processing. For example, the shortcode content is HTML.
- `{{%/* myshortcode */%}}` tells Hugo that the rendered shortcode needs further processing. For example, the shortcode content is Markdown.
Use the latter for the "include" shortcode described above.
## Further explanation
To understand what is returned by the `RenderShortcodes` method, consider this content file
```text {file="content/about.md"}
+++
title = 'About'
date = 2023-10-07T12:28:33-07:00
+++
{{</* ref "privacy" */>}}
An *emphasized* word.
```
With this template code:
```go-html-template
{{ $p := site.GetPage "/about" }}
{{ $p.RenderShortcodes }}
```
Hugo renders this:;
```html
https://example.org/privacy/
An *emphasized* word.
```
Note that the shortcode within the content file was rendered, but the surrounding Markdown was preserved.
## Limitations
The primary use case for `.RenderShortcodes` is inclusion of Markdown content. If you try to use `.RenderShortcodes` inside `HTML` blocks when inside Markdown, you will get a warning similar to this:
```text
WARN .RenderShortcodes detected inside HTML block in "/content/mypost.md"; this may not be what you intended ...
```
The above warning can be turned off is this is what you really want.