1---
2title: Shortcode Variables
3linktitle: Shortcode Variables
4description: Shortcodes can access page variables and also have their own specific built-in variables.
5date: 2017-03-12
6publishdate: 2017-03-12
7lastmod: 2017-03-12
8categories: [variables and params]
9keywords: [shortcodes]
10draft: false
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13    parent: "variables"
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18toc: false
19---
20
21[Shortcodes][shortcodes] have access to parameters delimited in the shortcode declaration via [`.Get`][getfunction], page- and site-level variables, and also the following shortcode-specific fields:
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23.Name
24: Shortcode name.
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26.Ordinal
27: Zero-based ordinal in relation to its parent. If the parent is the page itself, this ordinal will represent the position of this shortcode in the page content.
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29.Parent
30: provides access to the parent shortcode context in nested shortcodes. This can be very useful for inheritance of common shortcode parameters from the root.
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32.Position
33: Contains [filename and position](https://godoc.org/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/common/text#Position) for the shortcode in a page. Note that this can be relatively expensive to calculate, and is meant for error reporting. See [Error Handling in Shortcodes](/templates/shortcode-templates/#error-handling-in-shortcodes).
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38.IsNamedParams
39: boolean that returns `true` when the shortcode in question uses [named rather than positional parameters][shortcodes]
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41.Inner
42: represents the content between the opening and closing shortcode tags when a [closing shortcode][markdownshortcode] is used
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44[getfunction]: /functions/get/
45[markdownshortcode]: /content-management/shortcodes/#shortcodes-with-markdown
46[shortcodes]: /templates/shortcode-templates/
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