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Ivan Djordjevic
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Ivan Djordjevic comes from the small town of Prokuplje, Serbia. As a self-taught developer, he spent the first few years working on different projects, but only when he came in contact with Shopify and learned about Liquid that he found himself. In 2016, Ivan joined Shopify Experts under HeyCarson, where he moved to the lead developer position after a few months. Since joining the Shopify family, Ivan found his passion in sharing his knowledge with other developers and guiding them on their way to becoming a Shopify Expert.
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Working with the section schema

In the previous chapter, we learned how to use JSON to create global settings, which has a similar format to the JSON for section files. However, sectional JSON comes with a few distinct differences.

The first major difference is that we need to define JSON inside the section file instead of the settings_schema.json file. To do this, we will need to introduce the schema tag:

{% schema %}{% endschema %}

The schema tag is a Liquid tag that does not have any output on its own. It simply allows us to write JSON code inside the section files. Note that each section file can only contain a single schema tag, which must stand on its own. It cannot be nested inside any kind of other Liquid tags.

Once we have the schema tag in place, we are ready to familiarize ourselves with the types of attributes that we can use within the schema tags.

The name attribute

As its name suggests, the name attribute allows us to set the section name, which we...

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Ivan Djordjevic comes from the small town of Prokuplje, Serbia. As a self-taught developer, he spent the first few years working on different projects, but only when he came in contact with Shopify and learned about Liquid that he found himself. In 2016, Ivan joined Shopify Experts under HeyCarson, where he moved to the lead developer position after a few months. Since joining the Shopify family, Ivan found his passion in sharing his knowledge with other developers and guiding them on their way to becoming a Shopify Expert.
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