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HTML comment showing which templates were considered for a page

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Closes #171
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@ -143,6 +143,18 @@ templates::
table-mydatabase-Food-Trucks-399138.html
table.html
You can find out which templates were considered for a specific page by viewing
source on that page and looking for an HTML comment at the bottom. The comment
will look something like this::
<!-- Templates considered: *query-mydb-tz.html, query-mydb.html, query.html -->
This example is from the canned query page for a query called "tz" in the
database called "mydb". The asterisk shows which template was selected - so in
this case, Datasette found a template file called ``query-mydb-tz.html`` and
used that - but if that template had not been found, it would have tried for
``query-mydb.html`` or the default ``query.html``.
It is possible to extend the default templates using Jinja template
inheritance. If you want to customize EVERY row template with some additional
content you can do so by creating a ``row.html`` template like this::