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Hugo uses Go's [`text/template`][] and [`html/template`][] packages.

The `text/template` package implements data-driven templates for generating textual output, while the `html/template` package implements data-driven templates for generating HTML output safe against code injection.

By default, Hugo uses the `html/template` package when rendering HTML files.

To generate HTML output that is safe against code injection, the `html/template` package escapes strings in certain contexts.

[`html/template`]: https://pkg.go.dev/html/template
[`text/template`]: https://pkg.go.dev/text/template