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title: "Converting to Liquid Templates (Pre-2022 Legacy)"
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# Converting to Liquid Templates (Pre-2022 Legacy)

## Converting to Liquid Templates

If your signature templates were built with Opensense tags and clauses, you have the option to switch to Liquid Templates. Liquid Templates is a templating engine used by Shopify.com that provides greater signature conditional capabilities. Most customers will not feel an immediate need to switch, but if you have advanced conditional requirements for your employee email signatures or if you feel more familiar with Liquid Templates syntax, a switch might be right for your account!  
Contact [help@opensense.com](mailto:help@opensense.com) so that we can help make any changesPre-2022 templates were built using **our legacy HTML syntax**. This article is for you if your tags are in **$tag;** format.In 2022, Opensense switched from HTML (utilizing unique Opensense tags and conditional clauses) to Liquid syntax.Liquid is an open source template language that adds on to HTML with tags and outputs

- **Tags**: includes a tag name and optional arguments wrapped between `{%` & `%}`
- **Outputs**: includes a valud and optional filters wrapped between `{{`` & ` `}}`

You can find more information on Liquid Syntax [here](https://auth0.com/docs/brand-and-customize/email/use-liquid-syntax-in-email-templates)