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Open and close angle bracket in HAML

I found something similar to %strong><= 5 in a source code.

What does ><, open close angle brackets, do in HAML?

Solution

  • http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html

    Whitespace Removal: > and <

    > and < give you more control over the whitespace near a tag. > will remove all whitespace surrounding a tag, while < will remove all whitespace immediately within a tag. You can think of them as alligators eating the whitespace: > faces out of the tag and eats the whitespace on the outside, and < faces into the tag and eats the whitespace on the inside. They’re placed at the end of a tag definition, after class, id, and attribute declarations but before / or =.