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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

You're reading from   Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid Design state-of-the-art, dynamic Shopify eCommerce websites using Liquid's powerful features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813969
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivan Djordjevic Ivan Djordjevic
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Shopify Explained
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Shopify FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Basic Flow of Liquid 4. Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
5. Chapter 3: Diving into Liquid Core with Tags 6. Chapter 4: Diving into Liquid Core with Objects 7. Chapter 5: Diving into Liquid Core with Filters 8. Section 3: Behind the Scenes
9. Chapter 6: Configuring the Theme Settings 10. Chapter 7: Working with Static and Dynamic Sections 11. Chapter 8: Exploring the Shopify Ajax API 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Working with the section schema

In the previous chapter, we learned how to use JSON to create global settings, which has a similar format to the JSON for section files. However, sectional JSON comes with a few distinct differences.

The first major difference is that we need to define JSON inside the section file instead of the settings_schema.json file. To do this, we will need to introduce the schema tag:

{% schema %}{% endschema %}

The schema tag is a Liquid tag that does not have any output on its own. It simply allows us to write JSON code inside the section files. Note that each section file can only contain a single schema tag, which must stand on its own. It cannot be nested inside any kind of other Liquid tags.

Once we have the schema tag in place, we are ready to familiarize ourselves with the types of attributes that we can use within the schema tags.

The name attribute

As its name suggests, the name attribute allows us to set the section name, which we...

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