options.template

Type: String

Default value: see below

This parameter is deprecated as of 0.2.0.

A string value that is used as a template to generate a sprite's CSS file. The alternative way to supply a template is to use options.templateFile. If both are specified at the same time, options.template supersedes options.templateFile.

See options.templateFile for more details.

Notes

This parameter is deprecated because grunt always tries to interpolate all strings in config using templates. While it is possible to retrieve a raw uninterpolated value, grunt may fail on missing variables even before it hits the code in this plugin making the whole process utterly unreliable.

Switching to a different set of delimiters is possible, yet makes code unportable between options.template and options.templateFile. Changing delimiters for external files, will break all existing installations.

Giving all, and the popularity of options.templateFile, it was decided to deprecate options.template.