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Blade 101
11 We have a template!
12 @stop
As you can imagine, the head section has been injected with our additional CSS file, and the source
for our page now looks like this:
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9 Hurray!
10 We have a template!
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Do you remember how the head section had some default content between the ‘@section’ and
‘@show’? Well, we might wish to append to this content, rather than replace it. To do this we can
use the @parent helper. Let’s modify our child template to use it, like this:
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11 Hurray!
12 We have a template!
13 @stop
The ‘@parent’ helper tells Blade to replace the parent marker, with the default content found within
the parent’s section. That sentence might sound a little confusing, but it’s actually quite simple. Let’s
have a look at how the source has changed for some clarity.