---
title: Template File Handler
inMenu: true
---
h2. Information

<notextile>{describe: TemplateFileHandler}</notextile>

h2. Description

The template file handler processes the templates for the page description files. Templates normally
specify the layout of the website. For this website only one template was used for all page
description files. However, you could assign each page description file its own template, if you
want to! (but why would one do that? :-)

You must have at least one template file in the root of the source directory which is the fallback
template if no other template can be found for a page description file. The template files are
organized hierarchically. So if during processing webgen does not find the default template file in
the directory in which the page file is, it searches the parent directory for the template. If it
isn't there either, it searches the parent's parent directory and so on. If webgen gets to the root
of the source directory and could not find a template, it will complain and stop.