ref: 5e39eb20a66812e08233431a6c3ffeef691a6f22
dir: /docs/content/en/functions/urlize.md/
---
title: urlize
# linktitle: urlize
description: Takes a string, sanitizes it for usage in URLs, and converts spaces to hyphens.
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [functions]
menu:
docs:
parent: "functions"
keywords: [urls,strings]
godocref:
signature: ["urlize INPUT"]
hugoversion:
deprecated: false
workson: []
relatedfuncs: []
---
The following examples pull from a content file with the following front matter:
{{< code file="content/blog/greatest-city.md" copy="false">}}
+++
title = "The World's Greatest City"
location = "Chicago IL"
tags = ["pizza","beer","hot dogs"]
+++
{{< /code >}}
The following might be used as a partial within a [single page template][singletemplate]:
{{< code file="layouts/partials/content-header.html" download="content-header.html" >}}
<header>
<h1>{{.Title}}</h1>
{{ with .Params.location }}
<div><a href="/locations/{{ . | urlize}}">{{.}}</a></div>
{{ end }}
<!-- Creates a list of tags for the content and links to each of their pages -->
{{ with .Params.tags }}
<ul>
{{range .}}
<li>
<a href="/tags/{{ . | urlize }}">{{ . }}</a>
</li>
{{end}}
</ul>
{{ end }}
</header>
{{< /code >}}
The preceding partial would then output to the rendered page as follows, assuming the page is being built with Hugo's default pretty URLs.
{{< output file="/blog/greatest-city/index.html" >}}
<header>
<h1>The World's Greatest City</h1>
<div><a href="/locations/chicago-il">Chicago IL</a></div>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="/tags/pizza">pizza</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/tags/beer">beer</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/tags/hot-dogs">hot dogs</a>
</li>
</ul>
</header>
{{< /output >}}
[singletemplate]: /templates/single-page-templates/