title: jinja_env
---
type: property
---
summary: The configured Jinja 2 Environment.
---
body:

This object is a configured Jinja2 environment.  For more information you can
refer to the [Jinja 2 Documentation :ref](http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/api/#jinja2.Environment).

This is where plugins can inject additional data like custom filters, tests
or global functions.

## Plugin Example

```python
from lektor.pluginsystem import Plugin

class MyPlugin(Plugin):
    ...

    def on_setup_env(self, **extra):
        def shout_filter(value):
            return unicode(value).upper() + '!!!!1111'
        self.env.jinja_env.filters['shout'] = shout_filter
```

Then you can use this filter from templates:

```html+jinja
<h1>{{ page.title|shout }}</h1>
```