[1.4.x] Fixed #13608 - Noted that template lookups use literal values.

Backport of 74c025d0285450bf277afbee095172af54562ab6 from master.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/api.txt b/docs/ref/templates/api.txt
index 1955bd4ead..aa386254aa 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/api.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ dot in a variable name, it tries the following lookups, in this order:
 * Attribute lookup. Example: ``foo.bar``
 * List-index lookup. Example: ``foo[bar]``
 
+Note that "bar" in a template expression like ``{{ foo.bar }}`` will be
+interpreted as a literal string and not using the value of the variable "bar",
+if one exists in the template context.
+
 The template system uses the first lookup type that works. It's short-circuit
 logic. Here are a few examples::