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 Writing Your Own Templates
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 If the default generated HTML doesn't meet your needs you can supply
-your own template. The easiest way is to use the `inject` option and pass a custom html file.
+your own template. The easiest way is to use the `template` option and pass a custom html file.
 The html-webpack-plugin will automatically inject all necessary CSS, JS, manifest
 and favicon files into the markup.