---
title: "Liquid filters: capitalize"
description: Capitalizes the first word in a string and downcases the remaining characters.
api_name: liquid
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/capitalize
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/capitalize.md
---

# capitalize

```oobleck
string | capitalize
```

returns [string](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/basics#string)

Capitalizes the first word in a string and downcases the remaining characters.

```liquid
{{ 'this sentence should start with a capitalized word.' | capitalize }}
```

##### Code

```
{{ 'this sentence should start with a capitalized word.' | capitalize }}
```

## Output

```html
This sentence should start with a capitalized word.
```