Can't change jade variable

Question

I'm gonna keep this short. I have this code:

- var title = 'title'

block content
  h1= title
  p Welcome to #{title}

Why does this not work? I have tried it without the variable and it works perfectly the, so the problem is about the variable.

Answer 1

The problem was that since index.jade extended layout, when I defined the variable inside index.jade and then referenced it inside the block content, the references to it came before the definition.

The fix is simple: either define the variable in block content too:

block content
- var title = 'title'
  h1= title
  p Welcome to #{title}

Or if you want it to be able to the layout.jade too, just define it at the top of layout.jade.