Variable tags
We can consider variables as data containers to save the various types of information that we want to use later in our code or overwrite as needed. Besides saving the information for later use, variables also allow us to use descriptive text as a label, allowing us to understand what type of information a particular variable contains. We can divide the variable tags into the following four groups:
assign
capture
increment
decrement
The assign tag
The assign
tag allows us to declare a variable to which we can assign string, number, or Boolean data. We can declare a variable by writing the assign
keyword followed by the name of the variable we are declaring, followed by the equal sign and the date we assign to that particular variant, and encapsulating it within the curly brace delimiters with percentage symbols:
{% assign stringVar = "This is a string!" %} {% assign numberVar = 2021 %} {% assign booleanVar = true %}
Once we...