# More powerful Display Templates options?

**URL:** <https://community.directus.com/t/more-powerful-display-templates-options/980>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** extensions\
**Created:** [August 16, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/more-powerful-display-templates-options/980 "2025-08-16T12:12:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![gandersen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.directus.com/gandersen/32/761_2.png) [@gandersen](https://community.directus.com/u/gandersen)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/more-powerful-display-templates-options/980/1 "2025-08-16T12:12:09Z")

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Anyone got some suggestions for ways to make display templates more powerful. Something like Handlebars, or even just plain Mustache syntax like `{{#username}}{{username}}{{/username}}{{^username}}Guest{{/username}}`

Or even more basic is there an Interface and/or Display extension that renders the current display templates but without the double dash (–) for empty fields? This would work well is some situations…

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**Author:** ![rijkvanzanten](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.directus.com/rijkvanzanten/32/31_2.png) [@rijkvanzanten](https://community.directus.com/u/rijkvanzanten)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/more-powerful-display-templates-options/980/3 "2026-04-21T17:57:38Z")

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Thank you for the suggestion! I’ve jotted down your feature request so we can take a look at it in the future