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# Authors Style Guide
# Angular Documentation Style Guide
<!-- formerly Authors Style Guide -->
This page presents design and layout guidelines for Angular documentation pages. These guidelines should be followed by all guide page authors. Deviations must be approved by the documentation editor.
This Style Guide is for anyone who contributes to the Angular documentation (this site).
These guidelines should be followed by all authors.
Deviations must be approved by a documentation editor.
Most guide pages should have [accompanying sample code](#from-code-samples) with
[special markup](#source-code-markup) for the code snippets on the page.
Code samples should adhere to the
[style guide for Angular applications](guide/styleguide "Application Code Style Guide")
because readers expect consistency.
The guidelines described here serve two purposes:
For clarity and precision, every guideline on _this_ page is illustrated with a working example,
followed by the page markup for that example ... as shown here.
* To ensure a high-quality, consistent experience for Angular documentation users.
* To simplify the writing process for contributing authors.
This guide helps you make decisions about tone, voice, and style.
It also helps you find the right markup quickly.
<div class="alert is-helpful">
This guide is a *living document*; it changes over time.
We strive for consistency to the extent feasible, but you may find parts of our documentation that don't match this style guide.
When in doubt, **follow this guide rather than imitating existing documents.**
</div>
## Scope of these guidelines
We ask all contributing authors to adhere to three aspects of style:
* **Writing style:** Word usage, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation.
Adherence to Angular's writing guidelines ensures a consistent "voice", helps ensure accuracy of the information, and facilitates use world-wide, by audiences with different backgrounds.
* **Markup style:** How to include images, tables, alert boxes, and code snippets.
Angular docs are written in Markdown, with custom extensions for this site. Correct markup ensures a consistent look-and-feel, and is essential for the doc to build and function correctly.
* **Angular coding style:** Coding style for example apps and code snippets.
Code examples are encouraged for demonstrating how to apply the concepts and features discussed.
Angular has a custom framework that enables authors to include code snippets directly from example apps that are automatically tested as part of doc builds.
To contribute example code, you must understand Angular itself and the custom framework for Angular doc examples.
For each aspect of style, the following table explains where to find the primary guidelines and what this Angular Documentation Style Guide offers.
Style | Guidelines
------------------------ | -------------------------------
**Writing style** | Primary: [Google Developer Documentation Style Guide](https://developers.google.com/style/)<br />This guide: Specifies any special considerations for Angular docs.
**Markup style** | Primary: This guide<br />This guide: Specifies guidelines for markup of guides and tutorials, which are written primarily in Markdown.
**Angular coding style** | Primary: [Angular Style Guide](guide/styleguide "Angular Application Code Style Guide").<br />This guide: How to create, store, and include code examples in guides and tutorials.
<div class="alert is-helpful">
Note: Angular API and CLI reference docs are generated from source code and/or related source files, which may have other markup styles and other ways of including code examples.
</div>
```html
followed by the page markup for that example ... as shown here.
```
## Doc generation and tooling