diff --git a/laravel/documentation/views/templating.md b/laravel/documentation/views/templating.md
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--- a/laravel/documentation/views/templating.md
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@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ ## Blade Layouts
 
 The profile view will automatically use the "master" template thanks to Blade's **@layout** expression.
 
+**Important:** The **@layout** call must always be on the very first line of the file, with no leading whitespaces or newline breaks.
+
 Sometimes you may want to only append to a section of a layout rather than overwrite it. For example, consider the navigation list in our "master" layout. Let's assume we just want to append a new list item. Here's how to do it:
 
 	@layout('master')