Liquid Template Variables - collection

The Liquid template variable collection has the following attributes:

collection.id

Returns the unique internal number of the collection.

This is normally only for internal usage.

collection.handle

This is the collection handle. The handle uniquely identifies the collection in the URL address.

The handle is usually the collection's title in lower case with all blanks replaced by a dash. "Summer Sale" would have the handle "summer-sale".

collection.title

Returns the title of this collection.

collection.description

Returns the description of this collection.

collection.content

This is an alias of description.

collection.products

Returns a collection of all products that are associated with this collection, matching the current view. The current view is takes into account things like pagination and selected tags. You can access each product using a for iteration.

{% for product in collection.products %}
   {{ product.title }}
{% endfor %}

Warning: A maximum of 50 products are returned unless pagination is being used.

collection.products_count

Returns the number of products in the collection.

collection.all_products

Returns a collection of all products that are associated with this collection.

Warning: A maximum of 50 products are returned unless pagination is being used.

collection.all_products_count

Returns the number of all products in the collection.

collection.tags

Returns all of the tags associated with all of the products in this particular collection which match the current view. This means that if the current view is filtered to only contain products with a certain tags, then this call will return all of the tags that the remaining products actually have.

<ul>
  {% for tag in tags %}
  <li>{{ '+' | link_to_add_tag: tag }} {{ tag | link_to_tag: tag }}</li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

collection.all_tags

Returns all tags associated with the collection.

collection.image

Returns the first collection image as an image template variable.

When used directly, such as collection.image, it returns the relative URL path of the collection image. This is equivalent to using collection.image.src.

For example,

<div>
  <img src="{{ collection.image | collection_img_url: 'medium' }}" alt="{{ collection.image.alt | escape }}" />
</div>

collection.featured_image

Returns the first collection image as an image template variable.

When used directly, such as collection.featured_image, it returns the relative URL path of the collection image. This is equivalent to using collection.featured_image.src.

For example,

<div>
  <img src="{{ collection.featured_image | collection_img_url: 'medium' }}" alt="{{ collection.featured_image.alt | escape }}" />
</div>

This method is functionally equivalent to collection.image.

collection.images

Returns an array of all the image template variables for this collection.

For example,

{% for image in collection.images %}
  {{ image | collection_img_url: 'medium' }}
{% endfor %}

When used directly, such as image, it returns the relative URL path of the image. This is equivalent to using image.src.

collection.images_count

Returns the number of images for this collection.

collection.next_product

Returns the next product in the collection, when your product pages have been scoped to a certain collection.

For a discussion of this, read How To Navigate Within A Collection.

collection.previous_product

Returns the previous product in the collection, when your product pages have been scoped to a certain collection.

For a discussion of this, read How To Navigate Within A Collection.

collection.url

The is the relative URL address of the collection.

collection.all_types

Returns a list of all unique product types in the collection. An array of types is returned.

Example usage:

<ul>
{% for product_type in collection.all_types %}
  <li>
    {{ product_type | link_to_type  }}
  </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

collection.all_vendors

Returns a list of all unique product vendors in the collection. An array of vendors is returned.

Example usage:

<ul>
{% for product_vendor in collection.all_vendors %}
  <li>
    {{ product_vendor | link_to_vendor  }}
  </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>