.. _ref-templates-index:

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Templates
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Django's template engine provides a powerful mini-language for defining the
user-facing layer of your application, encouraging a clean separation of
application and presentation logic. Templates can be maintained by anyone with
an understanding of HTML; no knowledge of Python is required.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   builtins
   api

.. seealso::

    For information on writing your own custom tags and filters, see
    :ref:`howto-custom-template-tags`.