# Adding a bespoke raw template
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-bespoke-raw-template/177993
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-bespoke-raw-template/177993 "2021-02-01T17:40:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-bespoke-raw-template/177993/1 "2021-02-01T17:40:32Z")
Hey, I’m trying to add my own Raw template … not simply override an existing one.
Reason: trying to get rid of those nasty ember tags you get when using nested components.
… initially I assumed it would be as easy as just adding one to the `templates` or `templates/list` directory, so I went ahead and did that, only for it to silently fail (to find my template).
Perhaps I can confirm this is not supported?
Then I found this:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/612284cef31cb9f068e0d36d01306d355a065ced](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/612284cef31cb9f068e0d36d01306d355a065ced)
and this:
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So I tried this:
```plaintext
import { addRawTemplate } from "discourse-common/lib/raw-templates";
import { compile } from "handlebars";
<---some init stuff -->
addRawTemplate('search-result-entry', compile(`hello`));
```
Only to get this:
`TypeError: Handlebars.compile is undefined`
Thanks!
Apologies if I’m doing anything wrong here …
(this is going to be super useful btw, so thank you for implementing it!)
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### Author:  [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-bespoke-raw-template/177993/2 "2021-02-01T18:25:33Z")
You should be able to add a raw template straight to the templates folder. We did so in `discourse-docs`. They now use the `.hbr` file extension, so maybe that’s where things tripped up.
> **[discourse-docs/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates at main ·...](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs/tree/main/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates)**
>
> main/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-bespoke-raw-template/177993/3 "2021-02-01T18:36:51Z")
> [@merefield](#):
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> Reason: trying to get rid of those nasty ember tags you get when using nested components.
You mean the wrapper `` which is added to ember components by default? You can disable that by setting `tagName` to an empty string:
>
Working with ember components is way easier than raw templates, so I’d definitely recommend sticking to ember if you can.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-bespoke-raw-template/177993/4 "2021-02-01T20:19:45Z")
Gah, I had my hbr templates in `templates/components`! (which is obviously wrong when you write that down)
Thanks for that example Justin! Fixed it by moving that out to templates folder, doh!
Working now!
@david ah very useful tip, thank you! I’ll leverage that too! That will allow me to retain actions, perfect.
Seems I’d vastly over complicated it, cheers!