A theme for Hugo designed for documentation.

★ What’s new in the latest release ★

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Motivation

The theme is a fork of the great Learn theme with the aim of fixing long outstanding bugs and adapting to latest Hugo features. As far as possible this theme tries to be a drop-in replacement for the Learn theme.

Features

Support

To get support, feel free to open a new discussion topic or issue report in the official repository on GitHub.

Contributions

Feel free to contribute to this documentation by just clicking the edit button displayed on top right of each page.

You are most welcome to contribute bugfixes or new features by making pull requests to the official repository. Check the contribution guidelines first before starting.

License

The Relearn theme is licensed under the MIT License.

Credits

This theme would not be possible without the work of many others.

Subsections of Hugo Relearn Theme

Chapter 1

Basics

Discover what this Hugo theme is all about and the core-concepts behind it.

Subsections of Basics

What's New

This document shows you what’s new in the latest release and flags it with one of the following badges. For a detailed list of changes, see the history page.

  • 0.112.4 The minimum required Hugo version.

  • Breaking A change that requires action by you after upgrading to assure the site is still functional.

  • Change A change in default behavior that may requires action by you if you want to revert it.

  • New Marks new behavior you might find interesting or comes configurable.


5.24.0.beta

  • 0.112.4 This release requires a newer Hugo version.

  • Change The light themes have a bit more contrast for content text and headings. Also the syntaxhighlighting was changed to the more colorful MonokaiLight. This brings the syntaxhighlightning in sync with the corresponding dark theme variants, which are using Monokai. If you dislike this, you can create your own color variant file as described here.

  • New You now can configure additional options for every theme variant in your hugo.toml. This allows for optional advanced functionality. You don’t need to change anything as the old configuration options will still work (but may generate warnings now).

    The advanced functionality allows you to set an explicit name for a theme variant, set different colors (if you are using monochrome SVGs) or even different icons (handy if you want to adjust colors for PNGs, GIFs or JPGs) and now allows for multiple auto mode variants that adjust to the light/dark preference of your OS settings.

  • New New partial for defining the heading. See documentation for further reading.


5.23.0 (2023-11-03)

  • Change With 0.120.0 the author settings move into the [params] array in your hugo.toml. Because this collides with the previous way, the theme expected author information, it now adheres to Hugo standards and prints out a warning during built if something is wrong.

    Change your previous setting from

    [params]
      author = "Hugo"

    to

    [params]
      author.name = "Hugo"
  • Change Taxonomy term pages now add the breadcrumb for each listed page. If this gets too crowded for you, you can turn the breadcrumbs off in your hugo.toml by adding disableTermBreadcrumbs=true.

  • New Taxonomy and term pages are now allowed to contain content. This is added inbetween the title and the page list.

  • New It is now possible to print custom taxonomies anywhere in your page. See the docs.

  • New It is now possible to adjust the menu width for your whole site. See the docs.

  • New This release adds social media meta tags for the Open Graph protocol and Twitter Cards to your site. See the docs.

  • New This release comes with additional sort options for the menu and the children shortcode. Both will now accept the following values: weight, title, linktitle, modifieddate, expirydate, publishdate, date, length or default (adhering to Hugo’s default sort order).

  • New The theme now provides a mechanism to load further JavaScript dependencies defined by you only if it is needed. This comes in handy if you want to add own shortcodes that depend on additional JavaScript code to be loaded. See the docs.

  • New The theme has updated its Mermaid dependency to 10.6.0. This adds support for the xychart type.

  • New This release adds portable Markdown links.

    Previously it was not possible to use pure Markdown links in a configuration independend way to link to pages inside of your project. It always required you to know how your uglyURLs setting is, wheather you link to a page or page bundle and in case of relative links if your current page is a page or page bundle. (eg. [generator](generator/index.html) vs. [generator](generator.html)). This is a hassle as you have to change these links manually once you change your uglyURLs setting or change the type of a page.

    You could work around this by using the relref shortcode (eg [generator]({{% relref "../generator" %}})) which works but results in non-portable Markdown.

    Now it’s possible to use the same path of a call to relref in a plain Markdown link (eg [generator](../generator)). This is independend of any configuration settings or the page types involved in linking. Note, that this requires your links to be given without any extension, so [generator](generator/index.html) will work as before.

    The following types of linking are supported:

    link description
    [generator](en/basics/generator) absolute from your project root (multilang)
    [generator](/en/basics/generator) absolute from your project root (multilang)
    [generator](basics/generator) absolute from your current language root
    [generator](/basics/generator) absolute from your current language root
    [generator](./../generator) relative from the current page
    [generator](../generator) relative from the current page

5.22.0 (2023-10-02)

  • Change This release fixes an issue where in unfortunate conditions DOM ids generated by Hugo may collide with DOM ids set by the theme. To avoid this, all theme DOM ids are now prefixed with R-.

    If you haven’t modified anything, everything is fine. Otherwise you have to check your custom CSS rules and JavaScript code.

  • Change You can now have structural sections in the hierarchical menu without generating a page for it.

    This can come in handy, if content for such a section page doesn’t make much sense to you. See the documentation for how to do this.

    This feature may require you to make changes to your existing installation if you are already using shortcuts to pages inside of your project with a headless branch parent.

    In this case it is advised to remove the title from the headless branch parent’s frontmatter, as it will otherwise appear in your breadcrumbs.

  • New It is now possible to overwrite the setting for collapsibleMenu of your hugo.toml inside of a page’s frontmatter.

  • New If a Mermaid graph is zoomable a button to reset the view is now added to the upper right corner. The button is only shown once the mouse is moved over the graph.

  • New It is now possible to remove the root breadcrumb by setting disableRootBreadcrumb=true in your hugo.toml.

  • New The output of the dedicated search page now displays the result’s breadcrumb.

  • New Table rows now change their background color on every even row.

  • New Translation into Swahili. This language is not supported for search.


5.21.0 (2023-09-18)

  • Change We made changes to the menu footer to improve alignment with the menu items in most cases. Care was taken not to break your existing overwritten footer. Anyways, if you have your menu-footer.html partial overridden, you may want to review the styling (eg. margins/paddings) of your partial.

  • New This release comes with an awesome new feature, that allows you to customize your topbar buttons, change behavior, reorder them or define entirely new ones, unique to your installation. See the documentation for further details.

  • New The theme has updated its Swagger dependency to 5.7.2 for the openapi shortcode. This brings support for OpenAPI Specification 3.1.


5.20.0 (2023-08-26)

  • Change The theme has updated its Swagger dependency to 5.4.1 for the openapi shortcode.

    With this comes a change in the light theme variants of Relearn Bright, Relearn Light and Zen Light by switching the syntaxhighlightning inside of openapi to a light scheme. This brings it more in sync with the code style used by the theme variants itself.

    Additionally, the syntaxhighlightning inside of openapi for printing was switched to a light scheme for all theme variants.

    If you dislike this change, you can revert this in your theme variants CSS by adding

    --OPENAPI-CODE-theme: obsidian;
    --PRINT-OPENAPI-CODE-theme: obsidian;
  • Change For consistency reasons, we renamed the CSS variable --MENU-SECTION-HR-color to --MENU-SECTION-SEPARATOR-color. You don’t need to change anything in your custom color stylesheet as the old name will be used as a fallback.

  • New The theme variants Zen Light and Zen Dark now add more contrast between menu, topbar and content by adding thin borders.

    Those borders are now configurable by using the CSS variables --MAIN-TOPBAR-BORDER-color, --MENU-BORDER-color, --MENU-TOPBAR-BORDER-color, --MENU-TOPBAR-SEPARATOR-color, --MENU-HEADER-SEPARATOR-color and --MENU-SECTION-ACTIVE-CATEGORY-BORDER-color.

    For existing variants nothing has changed visually.

  • New The default values for the image effects are now configurable for your whole site via hugo.toml or for each page thru frontmatter.

  • New This release fixes a long outstanding bug where Mermaid graphs could not be displayed if they were initially hidden - like in collapsed expand or inactive tabs.

  • New Restored compatibility with Hugo versions lower than 0.111.0 for the highlight shortcode. This does not change the minimum required Hugo version.


5.19.0 (2023-08-12)

  • New The highlight shortcode now accepts the new parameter title. This displays the code like a single tab. This is also available using codefences and makes it much easier to write nicer code samples.

  • New The theme has added two new color variants zen-light and zen-dark. Check it out!

  • New The theme now dispatches the custom event themeVariantLoaded on the document when the variant is fully loaded either initially or by switching the variant manually with the variant selector.

  • New The theme has updated its Mermaid dependency to 10.3.1. This adds support for the sankey diagram type and now comes with full support for YAML inside Mermaid graphs (previously, the theme ignored explicit Mermaid theme settings in YAML).

  • New Translation into Hungarian.


5.18.0 (2023-07-27)

  • Change The theme adds additional warnings for deprecated or now unsupported features.

  • Change There are visual improvements in displaying text links in your content aswell as to some other clickable areas in the theme. If you’ve overwritten some theme styles in your own CSS, keep this in mind.

  • New Restored compatibility with Hugo 0.95.0 or higher. This does not change the minimum required Hugo version.

  • New The siteparam shortcode is now capable in displaying nested params aswell as supporting text formatting.


5.17.0 (2023-06-22)

  • Change The default behavior for the copy-to-clipboard feature for code blocks has changed.

    The copy-to-clipboard button for code blocks will now only be displayed if the reader hovers the code block.

    If you dislike this new behavior you can turn it off and revert to the old behavior by adding [params] disableHoverBlockCopyToClipBoard=true to your hugo.toml.

  • New Restored compatibility with Hugo 0.114.0 or higher. This does not change the minimum required Hugo version.

  • New The new highlight shortcode replaces Hugo’s default implementation and is fully compatible. So you don’t need to change anything.

    In addition it offers some extensions. Currently only the wrap extension option is provided to control whether a code block should be wrapped or scrolled if to long to fit.


5.16.0 (2023-06-10)

  • Change The theme now provides warnings for deprecated or now unsupported features. The warnings include hints how to fix them and an additional link to the documenation.

    DEPRECATION warnings mark features that still work but may be removed in the future.

    UNSUPPORTED warnings mark features that will not work anymore.

  • Change The 404 error page was revamped. Hopefully you will not see this very often.

  • New The tabs shortcode and the tab shortcode received some love and now align with their style, color, title and icon parameter to the other shortcodes.

    The visuals are now slightly different compared to previous versions. Most noteable, if you now display a single code block in a tab, its default styling will adapt to that of a code block but with a tab handle at the top.

    Additionally the name parameter was renamed to title but you don’t need to change anything yet as the old name will be used as a fallback. Nevertheless you will get deprecation warnings while executing Hugo.

  • New The theme now optionally supports separate favicons for light & dark mode.


5.15.0 (2023-05-29)

  • Change Restored compatibility with Hugo 0.112.0 or higher. This does not change the minimum required Hugo version.

    The attachments shortcode has compatiblity issues with newer Hugo versions. You must switch to leaf bundles or are locked to Hugo < 0.112.0 for now.

    It is planned to refactor the attchments shortcode in the future. This will make it possible to use the shortcode in branch bundles again but not in simple pages anymore. This will most likely come with a breaking change.

  • Change The tabs shortcode has changed behavior if you haven’t set the groupid parameter.

    Formerly all tab views without a groupid were treated as so they belong to the same group. Now, each tab view is treated as it was given a unique id.

  • New The already known tabshas a new friend the tab shortcode to make it easier to create a tab view in case you only need one single tab. Really handy if you want to flag your code examples with a language identifier.

    Additionally for such a use case, the whitespace between a tab outline and the code is removed if only a single code block is contained.

  • New Besides the tag taxonomy the theme now also provides the category taxonomy out of the box and shows them in the content footer of each page.


5.14.0 (2023-05-20)

  • New The taxonomy pages received some love in this release, making them better leverage available screen space and adding translation support for the taxonomy names.

    Hugo’s default taxonmies tags and categories are already contained in the theme’s i18n files. If you have self-defined taxonomies, you can add translations by adding them to your own i18n files. If you don’t provide translations, the singualar and plural forms are taken as configured in your hugo.toml.

  • New To give you more flexibility in customizing your article layout a new partial content-header.html is introduced.

    This came out of the requirement to customize the position of article tags, which by default are displayed above the title. A second requirement was to also show additional taxonomies not supported by the theme natively. While Hugo supports tags and categories by default, the theme only displays tags.

    So how to adjust the position of tags starting from the theme’s default where tags are only shown above the title?

    1. Hide tags above title: Overwrite content-header.html with an empty file.
    2. Show tags between title and content: Overwrite heading-post.html and add {{- partial "tags.html" . }} to it.
    3. Show tags below content: Overwrite content-footer.html and add {{- partial "tags.html" . }} to it.
  • New The new parameter breadcrumbSeparator is now available in your hugo.toml to change the - well - separator of the breadcrumb items. An appropriate default is in place if you do not configure anything.


5.13.0 (2023-05-17)

  • Change The swagger shortcode was deprecated in favor for the openapi shortcode. You don’t need to change anything yet as the old name will be used as a fallback. It is planned to remove the swagger shortcode in the next major release.

    Additionally, the implemantion of this shortcode was switched from RapiDoc to SwaggerUI.


5.12.0 (2023-05-04)

  • Change In the effort to comply with WCAG standards, the implementation of the collapsible menu was changed (again). While Internet Explorer 11 has issues in displaying it, the functionality still works.

  • New Support for the great VSCode Front Matter extension which provides on-premise CMS capabilties to Hugo.

    The theme provides Front Matter snippets for its shortcodes. Currently only English and German is supported. Put a reference into your frontmatter.json like this

    {
      ...
      "frontMatter.extends": [
          "./vscode-frontmatter/snippets.en.json"
      ]
      ...
    }
  • New Support for languages that are written right to left (like Arabic) is now complete and extended to the menu, the top navigation bar and print. You can experience this in the pirate translation. This feature is not available in Internet Explorer 11.

  • New The scrollbars are now colored according to their variant color scheme to better fit into the visuals.


5.11.0 (2023-02-07)

  • Change The theme removed the popular jQuery library from its distribution.

    In case you made changes to the theme that are dependend on this library you can place a copy of jQuery into your static/js directory and load it from your own layouts/partials/custom-header.html like this:

    <script src="{{"js/jquery.min.js"| relURL}}" defer></script>
  • Change Mermaid diagrams can now be configured for pan and zoom on site-, page-level or individually for each graph.

    The default setting of on, in effect since 1.1.0, changed back to off as there was interference with scrolling on mobile and big pages.

  • Change The theme is now capable to visually adapt to your OS’s light/dark mode setting.

    This is also the new default setting if you haven’t configured themeVariant in your hugo.toml.

    Additionally you can configure the variants to be taken for light/dark mode with the new themeVariantAuto parameter.

    This is not supported for Internet Explorer 11, which still displays in the relearn-light variant.

  • Change The JavaScript code for handling image lightboxes (provided by Featherlight) was replaced by a CSS-only solution.

    This also changed the lightbox effects parameter from featherlight=false to lightbox=false. Nevertheless you don’t need to change anything as the old name will be used as a fallback.

  • Change In the effort to comply with WCAG standards, the implementation of the expand shortcode was changed. While Internet Explorer 11 has issues in displaying it, the functionality still works.

  • New Translation into Czech. This language is not supported for search.

  • New GitHub releases are also now tagged for the main version (eg. 1.2.x), major version (eg. 1.x) and the latest (just x) release making it easier for you to pin the theme to a certain version.


5.10.0 (2023-01-25)

  • New The attachments, badge, button and notice shortcodes have a new parameter color to set arbitrary CSS color values.

    Additionally the --ACCENT-color brand color introduced in version 5.8.0 is now supported with these shortcodes.


5.9.0 (2022-12-23)

  • Breaking With this version it is now possible to not only have sections on the first menu level but also pages.

    It was later discovered, that this causes pages only meant to be displayed in the More section of the menu and stored directly inside your content directory to now show up in the menu aswell.

    To get rid of this undesired behavior you have two choices:

    1. Make the page file a headless branch bundle (contained in its own subdirectory and called _index.md) and add the following frontmatter configuration to the file (see exampleSite’s content/showcase/_index.en.md). This causes its content to not be ontained in the sitemap.

      title = "Showcase"
      [_build]
        render = "always"
        list = "never"
        publishResources = true
    2. Store the page file for below a parent headless branch bundle and add the following frontmatter to he parent (see exampleSite’s content/more/_index.en.md).

      # title = "More" ### ATTENTION: Don't give this page a title as this will cause it to be in the breadcrumbs - a thing you most likely don't want
      [_build]
        render = "never"
        list = "never"
        publishResources = false

      In this case, the file itself can be a branch bundle, leaf bundle or simple page (see exampleSite’s content/more/credits.en.md). This causes its content to be contained in the sitemap.

      title = "Credits"
  • Change The required folder name for the attachments shortcode was changed for leaf bundles.

    Previously, the attachments for leaf bundles in non-multilang setups were required to be in a files subdirectory. For page bundles and leaf bundles in multilang setups they were always required to be in a _index.<LANGCODE>.files or index.<LANGCODE>.files subdirectory accordingly.

    This added unnessessary complexity. So attachments for leaf bundles in non-multilang setups can now also reside in a index.files directory. Although the old files directory is now deprecated, if both directories are present, only the old files directory will be used for compatiblity.

  • Change Absolute links prefixed with http:// or https:// are now opened in a separate browser tab.

    You can revert back to the old behavior by defining externalLinkTarget="_self" in the params section of your hugo.toml.

  • New The theme now supports Hugo’s module system.


5.8.0 (2022-12-08)

  • New The new badge shortcode is now available to add highly configurable markers to your content as you can see it on this page.

  • New The new icon shortcode simplyfies the usage of icons. This can even be combined with also new badge shortcode.

  • New The theme now supports some of GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) syntax and Hugo Markdown extensions, namely task lists, defintion lists and footnotes.

  • New A new color --ACCENT-color was introduced which is used for highlightning search results on the page. In case you simply don’t care, you don’t need to change anything in your variant stylesheet as the old yellow color is still used as default.


5.7.0 (2022-11-29)

  • Change The Korean language translation for this theme is now available with the language code ko. Formerly the country code kr was used instead.

  • New The button shortcode can now also be used as a real button inside of HTML forms - although this is a pretty rare use case. The documentation was updated accordingly.

  • New The search now supports the Korean language.


5.6.0 (2022-11-18)

  • New This release introduces an additional dedicated search page. On this page, displayed search results have more space making it easier scanning thru large number of results.

    To activate this feature, you need to configure it in your hugo.toml as a new outputformat SEARCHPAGE for the home page. If you don’t configure it, no dedicated search page will be accessible and the theme works as before.

    You can access the search page by either clicking on the magnifier glass or pressing enter inside of the search box.

  • New Keyboard handling for the TOC and search was improved.

    Pressing CTRL+ALT+t now will not only toggle the TOC overlay but also places the focus to the first heading on opening. Subsequently this makes it possible to easily select headings by using the TAB key.

    The search received its own brand new keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+f. This will focus the cursor inside of the the search box so you can immediately start your search by typing.

  • New You are now able to turn off the generation of generator meta tags in your HTML head to hide the used versions of Hugo and this theme.

    To configure this in your hugo.toml make sure to set Hugo’s disableHugoGeneratorInject=true and also [params] disableGeneratorVersion=true, otherwise Hugo will generate a meta tag into your home page automagically.

  • New Creation of your project gets a little bit faster with this release.

    This addresses increased build time with the 5.x releases. The theme now heavily caches partial results leading to improved performance. To further increase performance, unnecessary parts of the page are now skipped for creation of the print output (eg. menus, navigation bar, etc.).


5.5.0 (2022-11-06)

  • Change The way images are processed has changed. Now images are lazy loaded by default which speeds up page load on slow networks and/or big pages and also the print preview.

    For that the JavaScript code to handle the lightbox and image effects on the client side was removed in favour for static generation of those effects on the server.

    If you have used HTML directly in your Markdown files, this now has the downside that it doesn’t respect the effect query parameter anymore. In this case you have to migrate all your HTML img URLs manually to the respective HTML attributes.

    Old New
    <img src="pic.png?width=20vw&classes=shadow,border"> <img src="pic.png" style="width:20vw;" class="shadow border">

5.4.0 (2022-11-01)

  • Change With the proper settings in your hugo.toml your page is now servable from the local file system using file:// URLs.

    Please note that the searchbox will only work for this if you reconfigure your outputformat for the homepage in your hugo.toml from JSON to SEARCH. The now deprecated JSON outputformat still works as before, so there is no need to reconfigure your installation if it is only served from http:// or https://.

  • Change The button shortcode has a new parameter target to set the destination frame/window for the URL to open. If not given, it defaults to a new window/tab for external URLs or is not set at all for internal URLs. Previously even internal URLs where opened in a new window/tab.

  • New The math shortcode and mermaid shortcode now also support the align parameter if codefence syntax is used.

  • New Support for languages that are written right to left (like Arabic). This is only implemented for the content area but not the navigation sidebar. This feature is not available in Internet Explorer 11.

  • New Translation into Finnish (Suomi).


5.3.0 (2022-10-07)

  • Change In the effort to comply with WCAG standards, the implementation of the collapsible menu was changed. The functionality of the new implementation does not work with old browsers (Internet Explorer 11).

  • New Image formatting has two new classes to align images to the left or right. Additionally, the already existing inline option is now documented.

  • New Printing for the swagger shortcode was optimized to expand sections that are usually closed in interactive mode. This requires print support to be configured.


5.2.0 (2022-08-03)

  • Change If you’ve set collapsibleMenu = true in your hugo.toml, the menu will be expanded if a search term is found in a collapsed submenu. The menu will return to its initial collapse state once the search term does not match any submenus.

5.1.0 (2022-07-15)

  • 0.95.0 This release requires a newer Hugo version.

  • Change Because the print preview URLs were non deterministic for normal pages in comparison to page bundles, this is now changed. Each print preview is now accessible by adding a index.print.html to the default URL.

    You can revert this behavior by overwriting the PRINT output format setting in your hugo.tomlto:

    [outputFormats]
      [outputFormats.PRINT]
        name= "PRINT"
        baseName = "index"
        path = "_print"
        isHTML = true
        mediaType = 'text/html'
        permalinkable = false

5.0.0 (2022-07-05)

  • Breaking The theme changed how JavaScript and CSS dependencies are loaded to provide a better performance. In case you’ve added own JavaScript code that depends on the themes jQuery implementation, you have to put it into a separate *.js file (if not already) and add the defer keyword to the script element. Eg.

    <script defer src="myscript.js"></script>
  • Change The way archetypes are used to generate output has changed. The new systems allows you, to redefine existing archetypes or even generate your own ones.

    Your existing markdown files will still work like before and therefore you don’t need to change anything after the upgrade. Nevertheless, it is recommended to adapt your existing markdown files to the new way as follows:

    • for your home page, add the frontmatter parameter archetype = "home" and remove the leading heading

    • for all files containing the deprecated frontmatter parameter chapter = true, replace it with archetype = "chapter" and remove the leading headings

  • Change The frontmatter options pre / post were renamed to menuPre / menuPost. The old options will still be used if the new options aren’t set. Therefore you don’t need to change anything after the upgrade.

  • New Adding new partials heading-pre.html / heading-post.html and according frontmatter options headingPre / headingPost to modify the way your page`s main heading gets styled.

  • New The new shortcode math is available to add beautiful math and chemical formulae. See the documentation for available features. This feature will not work with Internet Explorer 11.


4.2.0 (2022-06-23)

  • Breaking The second parameter for the include shortcode was switched in meaning and was renamed from showfirstheading to hidefirstheading. If you haven’t used this parameter in your shortcode, the default behavior hasn’t changed and you don’t need to change anything.

    If you’ve used the second boolean parameter, you have to rename it and invert its value to achieve the same behavior.

  • Change Previously, if the tabs shortcode could not find a tab item because, the tabs ended up empty. Now the first tab is selected instead.

  • Change The landingPageURL was removed from hugo.toml. You can safely remove this as well from your configuration as it is not used anymore. The theme will detect the landing page URL automatically and will point to the project’s homepage. If you want to support a different link, overwrite the logo.html partial.

  • New All shortcodes can now be also called from your partials. Examples for this are added to the documentation of each shortcode.


4.1.0 (2022-06-12)


4.0.0 (2022-06-05)

  • Breaking The custom_css config parameter was removed from the configuration. If used in an existing installation, it can be achieved by overriding the custom-header.html template in a much more generic manner.

  • Breaking Because anchor hover color was not configurable without introducing more complexity to the variant stylesheets, we decided to remove --MAIN-ANCHOR-color instead. You don’t need to change anything in your custom color stylesheet as the anchors now get their colors from --MAIN-LINK-color and --MAIN-ANCHOR-HOVER-color respectively.

  • New All shortcodes now support named parameter. The positional parameter are still supported but will not be enhanced with new features, so you don’t need to change anything in your installation.

    This applies to expand, include, notice and siteparam.

  • New The button shortcode received some love and now has a parameter for the color style similar to other shortcodes.

  • New New colors --PRIMARY-color and --SECONDARY-color were added to provide easier modification of your custom style. Shortcodes with a color style can now have primary or secondary as additional values.

    These two colors are the default for other, more specific color variables. You don’t need to change anything in your existing custom color stylesheets as those variables get reasonable default values.

  • New Translation into Polish. This language is not supported for search.

  • New The documentation for all shortcodes were revised.


3.4.0 (2022-04-03)

  • Breaking If you had previously overwritten the custom-footer.html partial to add visual elements below the content of your page, you have to move this content to the new partial content-footer.html. custom-footer.html was never meant to contain HTML other than additional styles and JavaScript.

  • New If you prefer expandable/collapsible menu items, you can now set collapsibleMenu=true in your hugo.toml. This will add arrows to all menu items that contain sub menus. The menu will expand/collapse without navigation if you click on an arrow.

  • New You can activate print support in your hugo.toml to add the capability to print whole chapters or even the complete site.

  • New Translation into Traditional Chinese.


3.3.0 (2022-03-28)

  • New Introduction of new CSS variables to set the font. The theme distinguishes between --MAIN-font for all content text and --CODE-font for inline or block code. There are additional overrides for all headings. See the theme variant generator of the exampleSite for all available variables.

  • New The new shortcode swagger is available to include a UI for REST OpenAPI specifications. See the documentation for available features. This feature will not work with Internet Explorer 11.


3.2.0 (2022-03-19)

  • 0.93.0 This release requires a newer Hugo version.

  • Change In this release the Mermaid JavaScript library will only be loaded on demand if the page contains a Mermaid shortcode or is using Mermaid codefences. This changes the behavior of disableMermaid config option as follows: If a Mermaid shortcode or codefence is found, the option will be ignored and Mermaid will be loaded regardlessly.

    The option is still useful in case you are using scripting to set up your graph. In this case no shortcode or codefence is involved and the library is not loaded by default. In this case you can set disableMermaid=false in your frontmatter to force the library to be loaded. See the theme variant generator of the exampleSite for an example.

  • New Additional color variant variable --MERMAID-theme to set the variant’s Mermaid theme. This causes the Mermaid theme to switch with the color variant if it defers from the setting of the formerly selected color variant.


3.1.0 (2022-03-15)


3.0.0 (2022-02-22)

  • Breaking We made changes to the menu footer. If you have your menu-footer.html partial overridden, you may have to review the styling (eg. margins/paddings) in your partial. For a reference take a look into the menu-footer.html partial that is coming with the exampleSite.

    This change was made to allow your own menu footer to be placed right after the so called prefooter that comes with the theme (containing the language switch and Clear history functionality).

  • Breaking We have changed the default colors from the original Learn theme (the purple menu header) to the Relearn defaults (the light green menu header) as used in the official documentation.

    This change will only affect your installation if you’ve not set the themeVariant parameter in your hugo.toml. If you still want to use the Learn color variant, you have to explicitly set themeVariant="learn" in your hugo.toml.

    Note, that this will also affect your site if viewed with Internet Explorer 11 but in this case it can not be reconfigured as Internet Explorer does not support CSS variables.

  • Change Due to a bug, that we couldn’t fix in a general manner for color variants, we decided to remove --MENU-SEARCH-BOX-ICONS-color and introduced --MENU-SEARCH-color instead. You don’t need to change anything in your custom color stylesheet as the old name will be used as a fallback.

  • Change For consistency reasons, we renamed --MENU-SEARCH-BOX-color to --MENU-SEARCH-BORDER-color. You don’t need to change anything in your custom color stylesheet as the old name will be used as a fallback.

  • New With this release you are now capable to define your own dark mode variants.

    To make this possible, we have introduced a lot more color variables you can use in your color variants. Your old variants will still work and don’t need to be changed as appropriate fallback values are used by the theme. Nevertheless, the new colors allow for much more customization.

    To see what’s now possible, see the new variants relearn-dark and neon that are coming with this release.

  • New To make the creation of new variants easier for you, we’ve added a new interactive theme variant generator. This feature will not work with Internet Explorer 11.

  • New You can now configure multiple color variants in your hugo.toml. In this case, the first variant is the default chosen on first view and a variant selector will be shown in the menu footer. See the documentation for configuration.

    Note, that the new variant selector will not work with Internet Explorer 11 as it does not support CSS variables. Therefore, the variant selector will not be displayed with Internet Explorer 11.


2.9.0 (2021-11-19)

  • Breaking This release removes the themes implementation of ref/relref in favor for Hugos standard implementation. This is because of inconsistencies with the themes implementation. In advantage, your project becomes standard compliant and exchanging this theme in your project to some other theme will be effortless.

    In a standard compliant form you must not link to the *.md file but to its logical name. You’ll see, referencing other pages becomes much easier. All three types result in the same reference:

    Type Non-Standard Standard
    Branch bundle basics/configuration/_index.md basics/configuration
    Leaf bundle basics/configuration/index.md basics/configuration
    Page basics/configuration.md basics/configuration

    If you’ve linked from a page of one language to a page of another language, conversion is a bit more difficult but Hugo got you covered as well.

    Also, the old themes implementation allowed refs to non-existing content. This will cause Hugos implementation to show the error below and abort the generation. If your project relies on this old behavior, you can reconfigure the error handling of Hugos implementation.

    In the best case your usage of the old implementation is already standard compliant and you don’t need to change anything. You’ll notice this very easily once you’ve started hugo server after an upgrade and no errors are written to the console.

    You may see errors on the console after the update in the form:

    ERROR 2021/11/19 22:29:10 [en] REF_NOT_FOUND: Ref "basics/configuration/_index.md": "hugo-theme-relearn\exampleSite\content\_index.en.md:19:22": page not found

    In this case, you must apply one of two options:

    1. Start up a text editor with regular expression support for search and replace. Search for (ref\s+"[^"]*?)(?:/_index|/index)?(?:\.md)?(#[^"]*?)?" and replace it by $1$2" in all *.md files. This is the recommended choice.

    2. Copy the old implementation files theme/hugo-theme-relearn/layouts/shortcode/ref.html and theme/hugo-theme-relearn/layouts/shortcode/relref.html to your own projects layouts/shortcode/ref.html and layouts/shortcode/relref.html respectively. This is not recommended as your project will still rely on non-standard behavior afterwards.


2.8.0 (2021-11-03)

  • Change Although never officially documented, this release removes the font Novacento/Novecento. If you use it in an overwritten CSS please replace it with Work Sans. This change was necessary as Novacento did not provide all Latin special characters and lead to mixed styled character text eg. for Czech.

  • New The theme now supports favicons served from static/images/ named as favicon or logo in SVG, PNG or ICO format out of the box. An overridden partial layouts/partials/favicon.html may not be necessary anymore in most cases.

  • New You can hide the table of contents menu for the whole site by setting the disableToc option in your hugo.toml. For an example see the example configuration.


2.7.0 (2021-10-24)

  • New Optional second parameter for notice shortcode to set title in box header.

2.6.0 (2021-10-21)

  • New Your site can now be served from a subfolder if you set baseURL and canonifyURLs=true in your hugo.toml. See the documentation for a detailed example.

2.5.0 (2021-10-08)

  • Change New colors --CODE-BLOCK-color and --CODE-BLOCK-BG-color were added to provide a fallback for Hugos syntax highlighting in case no language was given or the language is unsupported. Ideally the colors are set to the same values as the ones from your chosen chroma style.

2.4.0 (2021-10-07)

  • Change Creation of customized stylesheets was simplified down to only contain the CSS variables. Everything else can and should be deleted from your custom stylesheet to assure everything works fine. For the predefined stylesheet variants, this change is already included.

  • New Hidden pages are displayed by default in their according tags page. You can now turn off this behavior by setting disableTagHiddenPages=true in your hugo.toml.

  • New You can define the expansion state of your menus for the whole site by setting the alwaysopen option in your hugo.toml. Please see further documentation for possible values and default behavior.

  • New New frontmatter ordersectionsby option to change immediate children sorting in menu and children shortcode. Possible values are title or weight.

  • New Alternate content of a page is now advertised in the HTML meta tags. See Hugo documentation.


2.3.0 (2021-09-13)

  • 0.81.0 This release requires a newer Hugo version.

  • New Showcase multilanguage features by providing a documentation translation “fer us pirrrates”. There will be no other translations besides the original English one and the Pirates one due to maintenance constraints.


2.2.0 (2021-09-09)

  • New Hidden pages are displayed by default in the sitemap generated by Hugo and are therefore visible for search engine indexing. You can now turn off this behavior by setting disableSeoHiddenPages=true in your hugo.toml.

2.1.0 (2021-09-07)

  • 0.69.0 This release requires a newer Hugo version.

  • Change In case the site’s structure contains additional *.md files not part of the site (eg files that are meant to be included by site pages - see CHANGELOG.md in the exampleSite), they will now be ignored by the search.

  • New Hidden pages are indexed for the site search by default. You can now turn off this behavior by setting disableSearchHiddenPages=true in your hugo.toml.

  • New If a search term is found in an expand shortcode, the expand will be opened.

  • New The menu will scroll the active item into view on load.


2.0.0 (2021-08-28)

  • Change Syntax highlighting was switched to the built in Hugo mechanism. You may need to configure a new stylesheet or decide to roll you own as described on in the Hugo documentation

  • Change In the predefined stylesheets there was a typo and --MENU-HOME-LINK-HOVERED-color must be changed to --MENU-HOME-LINK-HOVER-color. You don’t need to change anything in your custom color stylesheet as the old name will be used as a fallback.

  • Change --MENU-HOME-LINK-color and --MENU-HOME-LINK-HOVER-color were missing in the documentation. You should add them to your custom stylesheets if you want to override the defaults.

  • Change Arrow navigation and children shortcode were ignoring setting for ordersectionsby. This is now changed and may result in different sorting order of your sub pages.

  • Change If hidden pages are accessed directly by typing their URL, they will be exposed in the menu.

  • Change A page without a title will be treated as hidden=true.

  • New You can define the expansion state of your menus in the frontmatter. Please see further documentation for possible values and default behavior.

  • New New partials for defining pre/post content for menu items and the content. See documentation for further reading.

  • New Shortcode children with new parameter containerstyle.

  • New New shortcode include to include arbitrary file content into a page.


1.2.0 (2021-07-26)

  • New Shortcode expand with new parameter to open on page load.

1.1.0 (2021-07-02)

  • Breaking Mermaid diagrams can now be panned and zoomed. This isn’t configurable yet.

  • New Mermaid config options can be set in hugo.toml.


1.0.0 (2021-07-01)

  • 0.65.0 The requirement for the Hugo version of this theme is the same as for the Learn theme version 2.5.0 on 2021-07-01.

  • New Initial fork of the Learn theme based on Learn 2.5.0 on 2021-07-01. This introduces no new features besides a global rename to Relearn and a new logo. For the reasons behind forking the Learn theme, see this comment in the Learn issues.

Requirements

Thanks to the simplicity of Hugo, this page is as empty as this theme needs requirements.

Just download at least version 0.112.4 of the Hugo binary for your OS (Windows, Linux, Mac).

Magic Magic

Installation

The following steps are here to help you initialize your new website. If you don’t know Hugo at all, we strongly suggest you learn more about it by following this great documentation for beginners.

Create your project

Hugo provides a new command to create a new website.

hugo new site <new_project>

Install the theme

Install the Relearn theme by following this documentation using Hugo’s module system.

This theme’s repository is: https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn.git

Alternatively, you can download the theme as .zip file and extract it in the themes directory

From Git

If you install the theme from your git repository or GitHub, you have several options.

If you use the head of the main branch, you are using the development version. Usually it is fully functional but can break from time to time. We try to fix newly introduced bugs in this version as soon as possible.

Additionally you can checkout one of the tagged versions. These tagged versions correspond to an official releases from the GitHub repository.

Besides the usual version tags (eg 1.2.3) there are also tags for the main version (eg. 1.2.x), major version (eg. 1.x) and the latest (just x) released version making it easier for you to pin the theme to a certain version.

Basic configuration

When building the website, you can set a theme by using --theme option. However, we suggest you modify the configuration file (hugo.toml) and set the theme as the default. You can also add the [outputs] section to enable the search functionality.

# Change the default theme to be use when building the site with Hugo
theme = "hugo-theme-relearn"

# For search functionality
[outputs]
home = [ "HTML", "RSS", "SEARCH"]

Create your first chapter page

Chapters are pages that contain other child pages. It has a special layout style and usually just contains a chapter name, the title and a brief abstract of the section.

### Chapter 1

# Basics

Discover what this Hugo theme is all about and the core concepts behind it.

renders as

A Chapter A Chapter

The Relearn theme provides archetypes to create skeletons for your website. Begin by creating your first chapter page with the following command

hugo new --kind chapter basics/_index.md

By opening the given file, you should see the property chapter=true on top, meaning this page is a chapter.

By default all chapters and pages are created as a draft. If you want to render these pages, remove the property draft: true from the metadata.

Create your first content pages

Then, create content pages inside the previously created chapter. Here are two ways to create content in the chapter:

hugo new basics/first-content.md
hugo new basics/second-content/_index.md

Feel free to edit those files by adding some sample content and replacing the title value in the beginning of the files.

Launching the website locally

Launch by using the following command:

hugo serve

Go to http://localhost:1313

You should notice three things:

  1. You have a left-side Basics menu, containing two submenus with names equal to the title properties in the previously created files.
  2. The home page explains how to customize it by following the instructions.
  3. When you run hugo serve, when the contents of the files change, the page automatically refreshes with the changes. Neat!

Build the website

When your site is ready to deploy, run the following command:

hugo

A public folder will be generated, containing all static content and assets for your website. It can now be deployed on any web server.

Note

This website can be automatically published and hosted with Netlify (Read more about Automated HUGO deployments with Netlify). Alternatively, you can use GitHub pages.

Configuration

On top of Hugo’s global configuration options, the Relearn theme lets you define further options unique to the theme in your hugo.toml. The defaults are written in the comments of each option.

Note that some of these options are explained in detail in other sections of this documentation.

[params]
# If an option value is said to be not set, you can achieve the same behavior
# by given it an empty string value.

###############################################################################
# Hugo
# These options usually apply to other themes aswell.

# The author of your site.
# Default: not set
# This will be used in HTML meta tags, the opengraph protocol and twitter
# cards.
# You can also set `author.email` if you want to publish this information.
author.name = "Sören Weber"

# The social media image of your site.
# Default: not set
# This is used for generating social media meta information for the opengraph
# protocol and twitter cards.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
images = [ "images/hero.png" ]

# The description of your site.
# Default: not set
# This is used for generating HTML meta tags, social media meta information
# for the opengraph protocol and twitter cards.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
description = "Documentation for Hugo Relearn Theme"

# Admin options for social media.
# Default: not set
# Configuration for the Open Graph protocol and Twitter Cards adhere to Hugo's
# implementation. See the Hugo docs for possible values.
social.facebook_admin = ""
social.twitter = ""

###############################################################################
# Relearn Theme
# These options are specific to the Relearn theme.

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Variants
# These options set your color variant.

# Used color variants.
# Default: "auto"
# This sets one or more color variants, available to your readers to choose
# from. You can
# - set a single value eg. "zen-light"
# - an array like [ "neon", "learn" ]
# - an array with options like [ { identifier = "neon" },{ identifier = "learn" } ]
# The last form allows to set further options for each variant.
# The `identifier` is mandatory. You can also set `name` which overrides the
# value displayed in the variant selector.
# If the array has more than one entry, a variant selector
# is shown in the lower part of the menu. The first entry in the array is the
# default variant, used for first time visitors.
# The theme ships with the following variants: "relearn-bright",
# "relearn-light", "relearn-dark", "zen-light", "zen-dark", "neon", "learn",
# "blue", "green", "red". In addition you can use auto mode variants. See the
# docs for a detailed explaination.
# You can also define your own variants. See the docs how this works. Also,
# the docs provide an interactive theme generator to help you with this task.
themeVariant = [
	{ identifier = "relearn-auto",  name = "Relearn Light/Dark", auto = [] },
	{ identifier = "relearn-light"  },
	{ identifier = "relearn-dark"   },
	{ identifier = "relearn-bright" },
	{ identifier = "zen-auto",      name = "Zen Light/Dark", auto = [ "zen-light", "zen-dark" ] },
	{ identifier = "zen-light"      },
	{ identifier = "zen-dark"       },
	{ identifier = "neon"           },
	{ identifier = "learn"          },
	{ identifier = "blue"           },
	{ identifier = "green"          },
	{ identifier = "red"            }
]

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# General
# These options are defining general, non visual behavior.

# Avoid new asset URLs on build.
# Default: false
# By default JavaScript-files and CSS-files get a unique ID on each rebuild.
# This makes sure, the user always has the latest version and not some stale
# copy of his browser cache. Anyways, it can be desireable to turn this
# off in certain circumstances. For example if you have Hugo's dev server
# running. Also some proxies dislike this optimization.
disableAssetsBusting = false

# Avoid generator meta tags.
# Default: false
# Set this to true if you want to disable generation for generator meta tags
# of Hugo and the theme in your HTML head. In tihs case also don't forget to
# set Hugo's disableHugoGeneratorInject=true. Otherwise Hugo will generate a
# meta tag into your home page anyways.
disableGeneratorVersion = false

# Avoid unique IDs.
# Default: false
# In various situations the theme generates non stable unique ids to be used
# in HTML fragment links. This can be undesirable for example when testing
# the output for changes. If you disable the random id generation, the theme
# may not function correctly anymore.
disableRandomIds = false

# Multilanguage content.
# Default: not set
# If your pages contain further languages besides the main one used, add all
# those auxiliary languages here. This will create a search index with
# support for all used languages of your site.
# This is handy for example if you are writing in Spanish but have lots of
# source code on your page which typically uses English terminology.
additionalContentLanguage = [ "en" ]

# Additional code dependencies.
# Default: See hugo.toml of the theme
# The theme provides a mechanism to load further JavaScript and CSS
# dependencies on demand only if they are needed. This comes in handy if you
# want to add own shortcodes that depend on additional code to be loaded.
# See the docs how this works.
# [relearn.dependencies]

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Topbar
# These options modify the topbar appearance.

# Hide the table of contents button.
# Default: false
# If the TOC button is hidden, also the keyboard shortcut is disabled.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
disableToc = false

# Hide the breadcrumbs.
# Default: false
# If the breadcrumbs are hidden, the title of the displayed page will still be
# shown in the topbar.
disableBreadcrumb = false

# Hide Next and Previous navigation buttons.
# Default: false
# If the navigation buttons are hidden, also the keyboard shortcuts are
# disabled.
disableNextPrev = false

# The URL prefix to edit a page.
# Default: not set
# If set, an edit button will be shown in the topbar. If the button is hidden,
# also the keyboard shortcuts are disabled. The given URL is prepended to the
# relative file path of a the displayed page. The URL must end with a `/`.
# This is useful if you wnat to give the opportunity for people to create merge
#  request for your content.
editURL = "https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn/edit/main/exampleSite/content/"

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Menu
# These options modify the menu apperance.

# Hide the search box.
# Default: false
# If the searc box is sisabled, the search functionality is disabled too.
# This will also cause the keyboard shortcut to be disabled and the dedicated
# search page is not linked although it mighty be configured.
disableSearch = false

# Hide the Home entry.
# Default: false
# If shown, a Home button will appear below the search bar and the main menu.
# It links to your the home page of the current language.
disableLandingPageButton = true

# The order of main menu submenus.
# Default: "weight"
# Submenus can be ordered by "weight", "title", "linktitle", "modifieddate",
# "expirydate", "publishdate", "date", "length" or "default" (adhering to
# Hugo's default sort order). This can be overridden in the pages frontmatter.
ordersectionsby = "weight"

# The initial expand state of submenus.
# Default: not set
# This controls whether submenus will be expanded (true), or collapsed (false)
# in the menu. If not set, the first menu level is set to false, all others
# levels are set to true. This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
# If the displayed page has submenus, they will always been displayed expanded
# regardless of this option.
alwaysopen = ""

# Shows expander for submenus.
# Default: false
# If set to true, a submenu in the sidebar will be displayed in a collapsible
# tree view and a clickable expander is set in front of the entry.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
collapsibleMenu = true

# Shows checkmarks for visited pages of the main menu.
# Default: false
# This also causes the display of the `Clear History` entry in the lower part
# of the menu to remove all checkmarks. The checkmarks will also been removed
# if you regenerate your site as the ids are not stable.
showVisitedLinks = true

# Hide heading above the shortcut menu.
# Default: false
# The title for the heading can be overwritten in your i18n files. See Hugo's
# documentation how to do this.
disableShortcutsTitle = false

# Hide the language switcher.
# Default: false
# If you have more than one language configured, a language switcher is
# displayed in the lower part of the menu. This opition lets you explicitly
# turn this behavior off.
disableLanguageSwitchingButton = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Hidden pages
# These options configure how hidden pages are treated.
# A page flagged as hidden, is only removed from the main menu if you are
# currently not on this page or the hidden page is not part of current page's
# ancestors. For all other functionality in Hugo a hidden page behaves like any
# other page if not otherwise configured.

# Hide hidden pages from search.
# Default: false
# Hides hidden pages from the suggestions of the search box and the dedicated
# search page.
disableSearchHiddenPages = false

# Hide hidden pages for web crawlers.
# Default: false
# Avoids hidden pages from showing up in the sitemap and on Google (et all),
# otherwise they may be indexed by search engines
disableSeoHiddenPages = true

# Hide hidden pages for taxonomies.
# Default: false
# Hides hidden pages from showing up on the taxonomy and terms pages. If this
# reduces term counters to zero, an empty but not linked term page will be
# created anyhow.
disableTagHiddenPages = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Content
# These options modify how your content is displayed.

# Title separator.
# Default: "::"
# Changes the title separator used when concatenating the page title with the
# site title. This is consistently used throughout the theme.
titleSeparator = "::"

# Breadcrumb separator.
# Default: ">"
# Changes the breadcrumb separator used in the topbars breadcrumb area and for
# search results and term pages.
breadcrumbSeparator = ">"

# Hide the root breadcrumb.
# Default: false
# The root breadcrumb is usually the home page of your site. Because this is
# always accessible by clicking on the logo, you may want to reduce clutter
# by removing this from your breadcrumb.
disableRootBreadcrumb = true

# Hide breadcrumbs term pages.
# Default: false
# If you have lots of taxonomy terms, the term pages may seem cluttered with
# breadcrumbs to you, so this is the option to turn off breadcrumbs on term
# pages. Only the page title will then be shown on the term pages.
disableTermBreadcrumbs = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Highlight
# These options configure how code is displayed.

# Hide copy-to-clipboard for inline code.
# Default: false
# This removes the copy-to-clipboard button from your inline code.
disableInlineCopyToClipBoard = true

# Always show copy-to-clipboard for block code.
# Default: false
# The theme only shows the copy-to-clipboard button if you hover over the code
# block. Set this to true to disable the hover effect and always show the
# button.
disableHoverBlockCopyToClipBoard = false

# Wrap for code blocks.
# Default: true
# By default lines of code blocks wrap around if the line is too long to be
# displayed on screen. If you dislike this behavior, you can reconfigure it
# here.
# Note that lines always wrap in print mode regardless of this option.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter or given as a parameter to
# individual code blocks.
highlightWrap = true

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Images
# These options configure how images are displayed.

# Image effects.
# See the documentation for how you can even add your own arbitrary effects to
# the list.
# All effects can be overridden in the page's frontmatter or thru URL parameter
# given to the image. See the documentation for details.

# Default: false
imageEffects.border = true
# Default: true
imageEffects.lightbox = true
# Default: false
imageEffects.shadow = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Links
# These options configure how links are displayed.

# How to open external links.
# Default: "_blank"
# For external links you can define how they are opened in your browser. All
# values for the HTML `target` attribute of the `a` element are allowed. The
# default value opens external links in a separate browser tab. If you want
# to open those links in the same tab, use "_self".
externalLinkTarget = "_blank"

# Generate link URLs the Hugo way.
# Default: false
# If set to true, the theme behaves like a standard Hugo installation and
# appends no index.html to prettyURLs. As a trade off, your build project will
# not be servable from the file system.
disableExplicitIndexURLs = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# MathJax
# These options configure how math formulae are displayed.

# Initialization options for MathJax.
# Default: not set
# A JSON value. See the MathJaxdocumentation for possible parameter.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
mathJaxInitialize = "{}"

# Only load MathJax if needed.
# Default: true
# If a Math shortcode is found, the option will be ignored and
# MathJax will be loaded regardlessly. The option is still useful in case you
# are using scripting to set up your graph. In this case no shortcode or
# codefence is involved and the library is not loaded by default. In this case
# you can set `disableMathJax=false` in your frontmatter to force the library to
# be loaded.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
disableMathJax = true

# URL for external MathJax library.
# Default: not set
# Specifies the remote location of the MathJax library. By default the shipped
# version will be used.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
customMathJaxURL = "" # "https://unpkg.com/mathjax/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js"

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Mermaid
# These options configure how Mermaid graphs are displayed.

# Make graphs panable and zoomable
# Default: false
# For huge graphs it can be helpful to make them zoomable. Zoomable graphs come
# with a reset button for the zoom.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter or given as a parameter to
# individual graphs.
mermaidZoom = true

# Initialization options for Mermaid.
# Default: not set
# A JSON value. See the Mermaid documentation for possible parameter.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
mermaidInitialize = "{ \"securityLevel\": \"loose\" }"

# Only load Mermaid if needed.
# Default: true
# If a Mermaid shortcode or codefence is found, the option will be ignored and
# Mermaid will be loaded regardlessly. The option is still useful in case you
# are using scripting to set up your graph. In this case no shortcode or
# codefence is involved and the library is not loaded by default. In this case
# you can set `disableMermaid=false` in your frontmatter to force the library to
# be loaded.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
disableMermaid = true

# URL for external Mermaid library.
# Default: not set
# Specifies the remote location of the Mermaid library. By default the shipped
# version will be used.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
customMermaidURL = "" # "https://unpkg.com/mermaid/dist/mermaid.min.js"

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# OpenApi
# These options configure how OpenAPI specifications are displayed.

# Only load OpenAPI if needed.
# Default: true
# If a OpenAPI shortcode is found, the option will be ignored and
# OpenAPI will be loaded regardlessly. The option is still useful in case you
# are using scripting to set up your graph. In this case no shortcode or
# codefence is involved and the library is not loaded by default. In this case
# you can set `disableOpenapi=false` in your frontmatter to force the library to
# be loaded.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
disableOpenapi = true

# URL for external OpenAPI library.
# Default: not set
# Specifies the remote location of the OpenAPI library. By default the shipped
# version will be used.
# This can be overridden in the page's frontmatter.
customOpenapiURL = "" # "https://unpkg.com/swagger-ui-dist/swagger-ui-bundle.js"

Branding

The Relearn theme provides configuration options to change your your site’s colors, favicon and logo. This allows you to easily align your site visuals to your desired style. Most of these options are exposed thru so called color variants.

A color variant lets you customize various visual effects of your site like almost any color, used fonts, color schemes of print, syntax highligtning, Mermaid and the OpenAPI shortcode, etc. It contains of a CSS file and optional configuration options in your hugo.toml.

The Relearn theme ships with a wide set of different color variants. You can use them as-is, copy them over and use them as a starting point for your customizations or just create completely new variants unique to your site. The interactive variant generator may help you with this task.

Once configured in your hugo.toml, you can select them with the variant selector at the bottom of the menu.

Change the Variant (Simple)

Single Variant

Set the themeVariant value to the name of your theme file. That’s it! Your site will be displayed in this variant only.

[params]
  themeVariant = "relearn-light"
Note

Your theme variant file must reside in your site’s static/css directory or in the theme’s static/css directory and the file name must start with theme- and end wit .css. In the above example, the path of your theme file must be static/css/theme-relearn-light.css.

If you want to make changes to a shipped color variant, create a copy in your site’s static/css directory. Don’t edit the file in the theme’s directory!

Multiple Variants

You can also set multiple variants. In this case, the first variant is the default chosen on first view and a variant selector will be shown in the menu footer if the array contains more than one entry.

[params]
  themeVariant = [ "relearn-light", "relearn-dark" ]
Tip

The theme provides an advanced configuration mode, combining the functionality for multiple variants with the below possibilities of adjusting to your OS settings, logo and syntax highlightning and even more!

Although all options documented here are still working, the advanced configuration options are the recommended way to configure your color variants. See below.

Adjust to OS Settings

You can also cause the site to adjust to your OS settings for light/dark mode. Just set the themeVariant to auto to become an auto mode variant. That’s it.

You can use the auto value with the single or multiple variants option. If you are using multiple variants, you can drop auto at any position in the option’s array, but usually it makes sense to set it in the first position and make it the default.

[params]
  themeVariant = [ "auto", "red" ]

If you don’t configure anything else, the theme will default to use relearn-light for light mode and relearn-dark for dark mode. These defaults are overwritten by the first two non-auto options of your themeVariant option if present.

In the above example, you would end with red for light mode and the default of relearn-dark for dark mode.

If you don’t like that behavior, you can explicitly set themeVariantAuto. The first entry in the array is the color variant for light mode, the second for dark mode.

[params]
  themeVariantAuto = [ "learn", "neon" ]

Change the Favicon

If your favicon is a SVG, PNG or ICO, just drop your image in your site’s static/images/ directory and name it favicon.svg, favicon.png or favicon.ico respectively.

If you want to adjust your favicon according to your OS settings for light/dark mode, add the image files static/images/favicon-light.svg and static/images/favicon-dark.svg to your site’s directory, respectively, corresponding to your file format. In case some of the files are missing, the theme falls back to favicon.svg for each missing file. All supplied favicons must be of the same file format.

If no favicon file is found, the theme will lookup the alternative filename logo in the same location and will repeat the search for the list of supported file types.

If you need to change this default behavior, create a new file layouts/partials/favicon.html in your site’s directory and write something like this:

<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.bmp" type="image/bmp">

Create a new file in layouts/partials/logo.html of your site. Then write any HTML you want. You could use an img HTML tag and reference an image created under the static folder, or you could paste a SVG definition!

Note

The size of the logo will adapt automatically.

Syntax Highlightning

If you want to switch the syntax highlighting theme together with your color variant, you need to configure your installation according to Hugo’s documentation and provide a syntax highlighting stylesheet file.

You can use a one of the shipped stylesheet files or use Hugo to generate a file for you. The file must be written to static/css/chroma-<NAME>.css. To use it with your color variant you have to define --CODE-theme: <NAME> in the color variant stylesheet file.

For an example, take a look into theme-relearn-light.css and hugo.toml of the exampleSite.

Change the Variant (Advanced)

The theme offers a new way to configure theme variants and all of the aspects above inside of a single configuration item. This comes with some features previously unsupported.

Like with the multiple variants option, you are defining your theme variants in an array but now not by simple strings but in a table with suboptions.

Again, in this case, the first variant is the default chosen on first view and a variant selector will be shown in the menu footer if the array contains more than one entry.

[params]
  themeVariant = [ "relearn-light", "relearn-dark" ]

you now write it that way:

[params]
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "relearn-light"
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "relearn-dark"

The identifier option is mandatory and equivalent to the string in the first example. Further options can be configured, see the table below.

Parameter

Name Default Notes
identifier <empty> Must correspond to the name of a color variant either in your site’s or the theme’s directory in the form static/css/theme-<IDENTIFIER>.css.
name see notes The name to be displayed in the variant selector. If not set, the identifier is used in a human readable form.
auto <empty> If set, the variant is treated as an auto mode variant. It has the same behavior as the themeVariantAuto option. The first entry in the array is the color variant for light mode, the second for dark mode. Defining auto mode variants with the advanced options has the benefit that you can now have multiple auto mode variants instead of just one with the simple options.

Example Configuration of This Site

[params]
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "relearn-auto"
    name = "Relearn Light/Dark"
    auto = []
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "relearn-light"
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "relearn-dark"
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "zen-auto"
    name = "Zen Light/Dark"
    auto = [ "zen-light", "zen-dark" ]
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "zen-light"
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "zen-dark"
  [[params.themeVariant]]
    identifier = "neon"

Modify Shipped Variants

In case you like a shipped variant but only want to tweak some aspects, you have two choices:

  1. Copy and change

    You can copy the shipped variant file from the theme’s static/css directory to the site’s static/css directory and either store it with the same name or give it a new name. Edit the settings and save the new file. Afterwards you can use it in your hugo.toml by the choosen name.

  2. Create and import

    You can create a new variant file in the site’s static/css directory and give it a new name. Import the shipped variant, add the settings you want to change and save the new file. Afterwards you can use it in your hugo.toml by the choosen name.

    For example, you want to use the relearn-light variant but want to change the syntax highlightning schema to the one used in the neon variant. For that, create a new static/css/theme-my-branding.css in your site’s directory and add the following lines:

    @import "theme-relearn-light.css";
    
    :root {
      --CODE-theme: learn; /* name of the chroma styleheet file */
      --CODE-BLOCK-color: rgba( 226, 228, 229, 1 ); /* fallback color for code text */
      --CODE-BLOCK-BG-color: rgba( 40, 42, 54, 1 ); /* fallback color for code background */
    }

    Afterwards put this in your hugo.toml to use your new variant:

    [params]
      themeVariant = "my-branding"

    In comparison to copy and change, this has the advantage that you profit from any adjustments to the relearn-light variant but keep your modifications.

Customization

Serving your page from a subfolder

If your site is served from a subfolder, eg. https://example.com/mysite/, you have to set the following lines to your hugo.toml

baseURL = "https://example.com/mysite/"
canonifyURLs = true
relativeURLs = true

Without canonifyURLs=true URLs in sublemental pages (like sitemap.xml, rss.xml) will be generated falsly while your HTML files will still work. See https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5226.

Serving your page from the filesystem

If you want your page served from the filesystem by using URLs starting with file:// you’ll need the following configuration in your hugo.toml:

relativeURLs = true

The theme will append an additional index.html to all page bundle links by default to make the page be servable from the file system. If you don’t care about the file system and only serve your page via a webserver you can also generate the links without this change by adding this to your hugo.toml

[params]
  disableExplicitIndexURLs = true
Note

If you want to use the search feature from the file system using an older installation of the theme make sure to change your outputformat for the homepage from the now deprecated JSON to SEARCH as seen below.

If not already present, add the following lines in your hugo.toml file.

[outputs]
  home = ["HTML", "RSS", "SEARCH"]

This will generate a search index file at the root of your public folder ready to be consumed by the Lunr search library. Note that the SEARCH outputformat was named JSON in previous releases but was implemented differently. Although JSON still works, it is now deprecated.

Activate dedicated search page

You can add a dedicated search page for your page by adding the SEARCHPAGE outputformat to your home page by adding the following lines in your hugo.toml file. This will cause Hugo to generate a new file http://example.com/mysite/search.html.

[outputs]
  home = ["HTML", "RSS", "SEARCH", "SEARCHPAGE"]

You can access this page by either clicking on the magnifier glass or by typing some search term and pressing ENTER inside of the menu’s search box .

Screenshot of the dedicated search page Screenshot of the dedicated search page

Note

To have Hugo create the dedicated search page successfully, you must not generate the URL http://example.com/mysite/search.html from your own content. This can happen if you set uglyURLs=true in your hugo.toml and defining a Markdown file content/search.md.

To make sure, there is no duplicate content for any given URL of your project, run hugo --printPathWarnings.

Activate print support

You can activate print support to add the capability to print whole chapters or even the complete site. Just add the PRINT output format to your home, section and page in your hugo.toml as seen below:

[outputs]
  home = ["HTML", "RSS", "PRINT", "SEARCH"]
  section = ["HTML", "RSS", "PRINT"]
  page = ["HTML", "RSS", "PRINT"]

This will add a little printer icon in the top bar. It will switch the page to print preview when clicked. You can then send this page to the printer by using your browser’s usual print functionality.

Note

The resulting URL will not be configured ugly in terms of Hugo’s URL handling even if you’ve set uglyURLs=true in your hugo.toml. This is due to the fact that for one mime type only one suffix can be configured.

Nevertheless, if you’re unhappy with the resulting URLs you can manually redefine outputFormats.PRINT in your own hugo.toml to your liking.

Home Button Configuration

If the disableLandingPageButton option is set to false, a Home button will appear on the left menu. It is an alternative for clicking on the logo. To edit the appearance, you will have to configure the landingPageName for the defined languages:

[languages]
[languages.en]
...
[languages.en.params]
landingPageName = "<i class='fas fa-home'></i> Home"
...
[languages.pir]
...
[languages.pir.params]
landingPageName = "<i class='fas fa-home'></i> Arrr! Homme"
...

If this option is not configured for a specific language, they will get their default values:

landingPageName = "<i class='fas fa-home'></i> Home"

The home button is going to look like this:

Default Home Button Default Home Button

Social Media Meta Tags

You can add social media meta tags for the Open Graph protocol and Twitter Cards to your site. These are configured as mentioned in the Hugo docs.

Change the Menu Width

The menu width adjusts automatically for different screen sizes.

Name Screen Width Menu Width
S < 48rem 0
M 48rem - 60rem 14.375rem
L >= 60rem 18.75rem

The values for the screen width breakpoints aren’t configurable.

If you want to adjust the menu width you can define the following CSS variables in your custom-header.html. Note that --MENU-WIDTH-S doesn’t exist as the menu is always hidden for small screen sizes.

:root {
    --MENU-WIDTH-M: 14.375rem;
    --MENU-WIDTH-L: 18.75rem;
}

Own Shortcodes with JavaScript Dependencies

Certain shortcodes make use of additional JavaScript files. The theme only loads these dependencies if the shortcode is used. To do so correctly the theme adds management code in various files.

You can you use this mechanism in your own shortcodes. Say you want to add a shortcode myshortcode that also requires the jquery JavaScript library.

  1. Write the shortcode file layouts/shortcodes/myshortcode.html and add the following line

    {{- .Store.Set "hasMyShortcode" true }}
  2. Add the following snippet to your hugo.toml

    [params.relearn.dependencies]
      [params.relearn.dependencies.myshortcode]
        name = "MyShortcode"
        location = "footer"
  3. Add the dependency loader file layouts/partials/dependencies/myshortcode.html. The loader file will be appended to your header or footer, dependend on the location setting in your hugo.toml.

    <script src="https://www.unpkg.com/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>

Character casing is relevant!

  • the name setting in your hugo.toml must match the key (that needs to be prefixed with a has) you used for the store in your layouts/shortcodes/myshortcode.html.
  • the key on params.relearn.dependencies in your hugo.toml must match the base file name of your loader file.

See the math, mermaid and openapi shortcodes for examples.

Output Formats

Certain parts of the theme can be changed for support of your own output formats. Eg. if you define a new output format PLAINTEXT in your hugo.toml, you can add a file layouts/partials/header.plaintext.html to change the way, the page header should look like for that output format.

React to Variant Switches in JavaScript

Once a color variant is fully loaded, either initially or by switching the color variant manually with the variant selector, the custom event themeVariantLoaded on the document will be dispatched. You can add an event listener and react to changes.

document.addEventListener( 'themeVariantLoaded', function( e ){
  console.log( e.detail.variant ); // `relearn-light`
});

Partials

The Relearn theme has been built to be as configurable as possible by defining multiple partials

In themes/hugo-theme-relearn/layouts/partials/, you will find all the partials defined for this theme. If you need to overwrite something, don’t change the code directly. Instead follow this page. You’d create a new partial in the layouts/partials folder of your local project. This partial will have the priority.

This theme defines the following partials :

  • header.html: the header of the page. See output-formats
  • footer.html: the footer of the page. See output-formats
  • body.html: the body of the page. The body may contain of one or many articles. See output-formats
  • article.html: the output for a single article, can contain elements around your content. See output-formats
  • menu.html: left menu. Not meant to be overwritten
  • search.html: search box. Not meant to be overwritten
  • custom-header.html: custom headers in page. Meant to be overwritten when adding CSS imports. Don’t forget to include style HTML tag directive in your file.
  • custom-footer.html: custom footer in page. Meant to be overwritten when adding JavaScript. Don’t forget to include javascript HTML tag directive in your file.
  • favicon.html: the favicon
  • heading.html: side-wide configuration to change the pages title headings.
  • heading-pre.html: side-wide configuration to prepend to pages title headings. If you override this, it is your responsibility to take the page’s headingPre setting into account.
  • heading-post.html: side-wide configuration to append to pages title headings. If you override this, it is your responsibility to take the page’s headingPost setting into account.
  • logo.html: the logo, on top left hand corner
  • meta.html: HTML meta tags, if you want to change default behavior
  • menu-pre.html: side-wide configuration to prepend to menu items. If you override this, it is your responsibility to take the page’s menuPre setting into account.
  • menu-post.html: side-wide configuration to append to menu items. If you override this, it is your responsibility to take the page’s menuPost setting into account.
  • menu-footer.html: footer of the the left menu
  • toc.html: table of contents
  • content.html: the content page itself. This can be overridden if you want to display page’s meta data above or below the content.
  • content-header.html: header above the title, has a default implementation but you can overwrite it if you don’t like it.
  • content-footer.html: footer below the content, has a default implementation but you can overwrite it if you don’t like it.

Stylesheet generator

This interactive tool may help you to generate your own color variant stylesheet.

To get started, first select a color variant from the variant selector in the lower left sidebar that fits you best as a starting point.

The graph is interactive and reflect the current colors. You can click on any of the colored boxes to adjust the respective color. The graph and the page will update accordingly.

The arrowed lines reflect how colors are inherited thru different parts of the theme if the descendent isn’t overwritten. If you want to delete a color and let it inherit from its parent, just delete the value from the input field.

To better understand this select the neon variant and modify the different heading colors. There, colors for the heading h2, h3 and h4 are explicitly set. h5 is not set and inherits its value from h4. h6 is also not set and inherits its value from h5.

Once you’ve changed a color, the variant selector will show a “My custom variant” entry and your changes are stored in the browser. You can browse to other pages and even close the browser without losing your changes.

Once you are satisfied, you can download the new variants file and copy it into your site’s static/css directory. Afterwards you have to adjust the themeVariant parameter in your hugo.toml to your chosen file name.

Eg. if your new variants file is named theme-my-custom-variant.css, you have to set themeVariant='my-custom-variant' to use it.

Graph

Topbar Modification

The theme comes with a reasonably configured topbar.

Topbar on mobile devices Topbar on mobile devices

Nevertheless, your requirements may differ from this configuration. Luckily the theme got you covered as the themebar, its buttons and the functionality behind these buttons is fully configurable by you.

Tip

All mentioned file names below can be clicked and show you the implementation for a better understanding.

Areas

The default configuration comes with three predefined areas that may contain an arbitrary set of buttons.

Topbar with default areas marked Topbar with default areas marked

  • start: shown between menu and breadcrumb
  • end: shown on the opposite breadcrumb side in comparison to the start area
  • more: shown when pressing the more button in the topbar

While you can not add additional areas in the topbar, you are free to configure addtional buttons that behave like the more button, providing further user defined areas.

Buttons

The theme ships with the following predefined buttons (from left to right in the screenshot)

  • sidebar: opens the sidebar flyout if in mobile layout
  • toc: opens the table of contents in an overlay
  • edit: browses to the editable page if the editURL parameter is set
  • print: browses to the chapters printable page if print support was activated
  • prev: browses to the previous page if there is one
  • next: browses to the next page if there is one
  • more: opens the overlay for the more area

Not all buttons are displayed at every given time. This is configurable (see below if interested).

Redefining Areas

Each predefined area and button comes in their own file. By that it is easy for you to overwrite an area file in your installation reusing only the buttons you like.

Eg. you can redefine the predefined end area by adding the file layouts/partials/topbar/area/end.html in your installation (not in the theme itself) to remove all but the more button.

The below example sets an explicit value for the onempty parameter, overriding the specific default value for this button (these defaults vary depending on the button). The parameter causes the more button to always be displayed instead of hiding once its content is empty.

{{ partial "topbar/button/more.html" (dict
    "page" .
    "onempty" "disable"
)}}

Defining own Buttons

Button Types

The theme distingushies between two types of buttons:

  • button: a clickable button that either browses to another site, triggers a user defined script or opens an overlay containing user defined content
  • area-button: the template for the more button, to define your own area overlay buttons

Button Parameter

Screen Widths and Actions

Depending on the screen width you can configure how the button should behave. Screen width is divided into three classes:

  • s: (controlled by the onwidths parameter) mobile layout where the menu sidebar is hidden
  • m: (controlled by the onwidthm parameter) desktop layout with visible sidebar while the content area width still resizes
  • l: (controlled by the onwidthl parameter) desktop layout with visible sidebar once the content area reached its maximum width

For each width class, you can configure one of the following actions:

  • show: the button is displayed in its given area
  • hide: the button is removed
  • area-XXX: the button is moved from its given area into the area XXX; eg. this is used to move buttons to the more area overlay in the mobile layout

Hiding and Disabling Stuff

While hiding a button dependend on the screen size can be configured with the above described hide action, you may want to hide the button on certain other conditions aswell.

For example, the print button in its default configuration should only be displayed if print support was configured. This is done in your button template by checking the conditions first before displaying the button (see layouts/partials/topbar/button/print.html).

Another prefered condition for hiding a button is, if the displayed overlay is empty. This is the case for the toc (see layouts/partials/topbar/button/toc.html) aswell as the more button (see layouts/partials/topbar/button/more.html) and controlled by the parameter onempty.

This parameter can have one of the following values:

  • disable: the button displayed in disabled state if the overlay is empty
  • hide: the button is removed if the overlay is empty

If you want to disable a button containing no overlay, this can be achieved by an empty href parameter. An example can be seen in the prev button (see layouts/partials/topbar/button/prev.html) where the URL for the previous site may be empty.

Reference

Button

Contains the basic button functionality and is used as a base implementation for all other buttons (layouts/partials/topbar/func/button.html).

Call this from your own button templates if you want to implement a button without an overlay like the print button (layouts/partials/topbar/button/print.html) or with an overlay containing arbitrary content like the toc button (layouts/partials/topbar/button/toc.html).

For displaying an area in the button’s overlay, see Area-Button.

Parameter

Name Default Notes
page <empty> Mandatory reference to the page.
class <empty> Mandatory unique class name for this button. Displaying two buttons with the same value for class is undefined.
href <empty> Either the destination URL for the button or JavaScript code to be executed on click.

- if starting with javascript: all following text will be executed in your browser
- every other string will be interpreted as URL
- if empty the button will be displayed in disabled state regardless of its content
icon <empty> Mandatory Font Awesome icon name.
onempty disable Defines what to do with the button if href is not empty but the content overlay is empty:

- disable: The button is displayed in disabled state.
- hide: The button is removed.
onwidths show The action, that should be executed if the site is displayed in the given width:

- show: The button is displayed in its given area
- hide: The button is removed.
- area-XXX: The button is moved from its given area into the area XXX.
onwidthm show See above.
onwidthl show See above.
title <empty> Arbitrary text for title, displayed in the tooltip.
content <empty> Arbitrary HTML to put into the content overlay. This parameter may be empty. In this case no overlay will be generated.

Area-Button

Contains the basic functionality to display area overlay buttons (layouts/partials/topbar/func/area-button.html).

Call this from your own button templates if you want to implement a button with an area overlay like the more button (layouts/partials/topbar/button/more.html).

Parameter

Name Default Notes
page <empty> Mandatory reference to the page.
area <empty> Mandatory unique area name for this area. Displaying two areas with the same value for area is undefined.
icon <empty> Mandatory Font Awesome icon name.
onempty disable Defines what to do with the button if the content overlay is empty:

- disable: The button is displayed in disabled state.
- hide: The button is removed.
onwidths show The action, that should be executed if the site is displayed in the given width:

- show: The button is displayed in its given area
- hide: The button is removed.
- area-XXX: The button is moved from its given area into the area XXX.
onwidthm show See above.
onwidthl show See above.
title <empty> Arbitrary text for title, displayed in the tooltip.

Predefined Buttons

The predefined buttons by the theme (all other buttons besides the more and toc button in layouts/partials/topbar/button).

Call these from your own redefined area templates if you want to use default button behavior.

The <varying> parameter values are different for each button and configured for standard behavior as seen on this page.

Parameter

Name Default Notes
page <empty> Mandatory reference to the page.
onwidths <varying> The action, that should be executed if the site is displayed in the given width:

- show: The button is displayed in its given area
- hide: The button is removed.
- area-XXX: The button is moved from its given area into the area XXX.
onwidthm <varying> See above.
onwidthl <varying> See above.

Predefined Overlay-Buttons

The predefined buttons by the theme that open an overlay (the more and toc button in layouts/partials/topbar/button).

Call these from your own redefined area templates if you want to use default button behavior utilizing overlay functionality.

The <varying> parameter values are different for each button and configured for standard behavior as seen on this page.

Parameter

Name Default Notes
page <empty> Mandatory reference to the page.
onempty disable Defines what to do with the button if the content overlay is empty:

- disable: The button is displayed in disabled state.
- hide: The button is removed.
onwidths <varying> The action, that should be executed if the site is displayed in the given width:

- show: The button is displayed in its given area
- hide: The button is removed.
- area-XXX: The button is moved from its given area into the area XXX.
onwidthm <varying> See above.
onwidthl <varying> See above.

History

Changelog

5.23.2 (2023-11-03)

Enhancements

  • [feature] taxonomy: improve taxonomy page #712
  • [feature] taxonomy: warn on missing term title #709

Fixes

  • [bug] taxonomy: fix sorting of terms on content pages #710

5.23.1 (2023-10-30)

Enhancements

  • [feature] taxonomy: improve term page #705

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: fix typo in chroma-learn.css #708
  • [bug] links: ignore local markdown links linking to files with extension #707

5.23.0 (2023-10-29)

Enhancements

  • [feature] taxonomy: allow for content on term pages #701
  • [feature] theme: write full file path on warnings #699
  • [feature] theme: show anchor link and copy to clipboard button on mobile #697
  • [feature][change] config: adjust to changes in Hugo 0.120 #693
  • [feature] variants: add more contrast to neon #692
  • [feature] mermaid: only show zoom reset button if zoomed #691
  • [feature] menu: add additional sort options #684
  • [feature] theme: add social media meta information #683
  • [feature] theme: simplify additional JS dependencies #682
  • [feature] links: warn if ref/relref is used falsly #681
  • [feature] menu: make width configurable #677
  • [feature] tabs: use color for link of inactive tabs #675
  • [feature] taxonomy: modularize term list generation #671
  • [feature] theme: remove warnings with hugo --printI18nWarnings #670
  • [feature] theme: implement portable linking #377

Fixes

  • [bug] links: extra space before link text #700
  • [bug] mermaid: reset zoom correctly #690
  • [bug] theme: fix mobile layout for width=48rem #676
  • [bug] frontmatter: resemble documented shortcode style #672
  • [bug] taxonomy: display terms in pages if removePathAccents=true #669

Maintenance

  • [task] mermaid: update mermaid to 10.6.0 #703
  • [task] openapi: update swagger-ui to 5.9.1 #702

5.22.1 (2023-10-02)

Enhancements

  • [feature] i18n: add Swahili translation #666
  • [feature] math: hide unrendered math #663
  • [feature] tabs: improve a11y by removing duplicate hidden title #662
  • [feature] mermaid: improve zoom UX #659

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: fix sidebar-flyout borders color for zen #667
  • [bug] clipboard: fix RTL location of tooltip #661
  • [bug] clipboard: ignore RTL for code #660
  • [bug] expand: fix aria-controls #658
  • [bug] theme: fix id generation for markdownified titles #657
  • [bug] mermaid: avoid graph bombing on hugo –minify #656
  • [bug] mermaid: fix width for some graphs #655

5.22.0 (2023-09-26)

Enhancements

  • [feature] mermaid: add pan&zoom reset #651
  • [feature] markdown: add interlace color for tables #648
  • [feature] search: add breadcrumb to dedicated search results #647
  • [feature][change] menu: optionally disable index pages for sections #642

Fixes

  • [bug] variants: restore generator zoom #650
  • [bug] clipboard: malused Fontawesome style #649
  • [bug][change] theme: avoid id collisions between headings and theme #646
  • [bug] theme: remove HTML validation errors #644
  • [bug] breadcrumb: remove superflous whitespace between items #643

5.21.0 (2023-09-18)

Enhancements

  • [feature] topbar: make buttons configurable #639
  • [feature][change] menu: fix footer padding #637

Fixes

  • [bug] breadcrumb: don’t ignore spaces for separator #636
  • [bug] theme: fix snyk code issues #633
  • [bug] images: apply image effects to lightbox images #631

Maintenance

  • [task] openapi: update to swagger 5.7.2 #641

5.20.0 (2023-08-26)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] theme: support for colored borders between menu and content #626
  • [feature] image: allow option to apply image effects globally #623
  • [feature][change] openapi: switch to light syntaxhighlightning where applicable #621
  • [feature] images: document usage of images with links #576

Fixes

  • [bug] highlight: fix rendering for Hugo < 0.111 #630
  • [bug] search: remove link underline on dedicated search page #627
  • [bug] highlight: don’t switch to block view if hl_inline=true #618
  • [bug] variant: minor adjustments to zen variants #617
  • [bug] mermaid: lazy render graph if it is initially hidden #187

Maintenance

  • [task] openapi: update to swagger 5.4.1 #620

5.19.0 (2023-08-12)

Enhancements

  • [feature] highlight: add title parameter #616
  • [feature] variant: signal variant switch as event #614
  • [feature] variant: add zen variant in light and dark #613
  • [feature] i18n: add Hungarian translation #604
  • [feature] mermaid: update to 10.3.0 #601

Fixes

  • [bug] siteparam: avoid halt if param is a map/slice #611
  • [bug] mermaid: fix broken zoom since update to v10 #608
  • [bug] mermaid: variant generator diagram does not respond to events #607
  • [bug] print: avoid chroma leak for relearn-dark #605

Maintenance

  • [task] mermaid: update to 10.3.1 #610

5.18.0 (2023-07-27)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] shortcodes: add more deprecation warnings #598
  • [feature][change] shortcodes: change context parameter to page if called as partial #595
  • [feature] siteparam: support nested parameters and text formatting #590
  • [feature][change] a11y: improve when tabbing thru links #581

Fixes

  • [bug] openapi: inherit RTL setting from Hugo content #600
  • [bug] 404: fix display in RTL #597
  • [bug] highlight: fix position of copy-to-clipboard button in RTL #594
  • [bug] openapi: fix spelling #593
  • [bug] search: fix typo in output format #591
  • [bug] tabs: fix tab selection by groupid #582
  • [bug] theme: restore compat with Hugo 0.95.0 #580
  • [bug][change] theme: improve display of links #577

5.17.1 (2023-06-22)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] highlight: make copy to clipboard appear on hover #574

5.17.0 (2023-06-22)

Enhancements

  • [feature] highlight: add configurable line breaks #169

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: support Hugo 0.114.0 #573
  • [bug] taxonomy: fix number tags #570
  • [bug] highlight: improve copy to clipboard #569

5.16.2 (2023-06-10)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: revamp 404 page #566

5.16.1 (2023-06-09)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: add deprecation warnings #565

Fixes

  • [bug] mermaid: allow for YAML frontmatter inside of graph #564
  • [bug] alias: fix redirect URLs in case of empty BaseURL #562

5.16.0 (2023-06-08)

Enhancements

  • [feature] tabs: add title and icon option #552
  • [feature] shortcodes: add style option to mimic code box color scheme #551
  • [feature] tabs: support color options #550
  • [feature] favicon: add light & dark option for OS’s prefered color scheme #549

Fixes

  • [bug] icon: remove whitespace on start #560
  • [bug] shortcodes: avoid superflous margin at start and end of content #558
  • [bug] expand: fix html encoding of finishing content tag #557
  • [bug] icon: fix ouput “raw HTML omitted” with goldmark config unsafe=false #555

5.15.2 (2023-05-29)

Enhancements

  • [feature] taxonomy: add support for category default taxonomy #541

Fixes

  • [bug] attachments: work for Hugo < 0.112 #546

5.15.1 (2023-05-25)

Fixes

  • [bug] shortcodes: intermediately use random ids instead of .Ordinal #543

5.15.0 (2023-05-25)

Enhancements

  • [feature] tab: new shortcode to display single tab #538
  • [feature][change] tabs: treat groupid as unique if not set #537
  • [feature] expand: indent expanded content #536
  • [feature] notice: make boxes more prominent #535

Fixes

  • [bug] attachments: fix build error since Hugo 0.112 #540

Maintenance

  • [task] chore: update Mermaid to 9.4.3 #534
  • [task] mermaid: update to 10.2.0 #499

5.14.3 (2023-05-20)

Fixes

  • [bug] tags: show taxonomy toc for standard installation #533

5.14.2 (2023-05-20)

Fixes

  • [bug] tags: translate breadcrumb and title for taxonomy #532

5.14.1 (2023-05-20)

No changelog for this release.


5.14.0 (2023-05-19)

Enhancements

  • [feature] tags: improve search index for tags #531
  • [feature] tags: increase readability of taxonomy pages #530
  • [feature] nav: make breadcrumb separator configurable #529
  • [feature] i18n: add translation for default taxonomies #528
  • [feature] theme: set appropriate defaults for all theme specific params #516
  • [feature] theme: allow to display tags below article #513

Fixes

  • [bug] shortcode: make .context always a page #527

5.13.2 (2023-05-17)

Fixes

  • [bug] print: enable print for pages with _build options #522

5.13.1 (2023-05-16)

Fixes

  • [bug] openapi: allow toc to scroll page #526

5.13.0 (2023-05-14)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] openapi: replace implementation with swagger-ui #523

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: avoid leaking shadows in neon print style #524

5.12.6 (2023-05-04)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: better HTML titles and breadcrumbs for search and tag pages #521

Fixes

  • [bug] menu: avoid hiding of expander on hover when active item has children #520
  • [bug] menu: showVisitedLinks not working for some theme variants #518
  • [bug] theme: fix resource URLs for 404 page on subdirectories #515

5.12.5 (2023-03-28)

Fixes

  • [bug] expand: not properly exanded when used in bullet point list #508

5.12.4 (2023-03-24)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: disableExplicitIndexURLs param is not working as expected #505

5.12.3 (2023-03-14)

Fixes

  • [bug] attachments: fix links if only one language is present #503
  • [bug] shortcodes: allow markdown for title and content #502

5.12.2 (2023-03-03)

Fixes

  • [bug] menu: fix state for alwaysopen=false + collapsibleMenu=false #498

5.12.1 (2023-02-26)

Enhancements

  • [feature] variant: add relearn bright theme #493

Fixes

  • [bug] generator: fix setting of colors #494

5.12.0 (2023-02-24)

Enhancements

  • [feature] frontmatter: support VSCode Front Matter extension #481
  • [feature] theme: make expand and image ids stable #477
  • [feature] variant: set scrollbar color to dark for dark variants #471
  • [feature] i18n: add full RTL support #470
  • [feature] piratify: fix some quirks, arrr #469
  • [feature][change] theme: optimization for huge screen sizes #466

Fixes

  • [bug] i18n: write code ltr even for rtl languages #492
  • [bug] anchor: fix link in FF when served from filesystem #482
  • [bug] shortcodes: don’t break build and render for invalid parameters #480
  • [bug] nav: restore scroll position on browser back #476
  • [bug] variant: avoid style leak for auto style #473

Maintenance

  • [task] build: add imagebot #485

5.11.2 (2023-02-07)

Fixes

  • [bug] tabs: nested tabs content is not displayed #468

5.11.1 (2023-02-06)

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: include missing theme-auto.css in distribution #467

5.11.0 (2023-02-05)

Enhancements

  • [feature] i18n: add Czech translation #455
  • [feature][change] lightbox: switch to CSS-only solution #451
  • [feature][change] variant: add support for prefers-color-scheme #445
  • [feature][change] expand: refactor for a11y #339
  • [feature][change] mermaid: make zoom configurable #144

Fixes

  • [bug] swagger: avoid errors when using invalid rapi-doc fragment ids #465
  • [bug] search: fix oddities in keyboard handling #463
  • [bug] badge: fix text color for IE11 #462
  • [bug] mermaid: rerender graph if search term is present and variant is switched #460
  • [bug] tags: show tag on pages when tag has space #459
  • [bug] edit: remove double slash on root page link #450

Maintenance

  • [task] build: add moving version tags #453
  • [task][change] theme: remove jQuery #452
  • [task] build: check for release notes before release #448

5.10.2 (2023-01-25)

Fixes

  • [bug] nav: fix breadcrumb for huge installations #446

5.10.1 (2023-01-25)

Fixes

  • [bug] print: fix image links with relative path #444

5.10.0 (2023-01-25)

Enhancements

  • [feature] shortcodes: support for accent color #440
  • [feature] shortcodes: add color parameter where applicable #438
  • [feature] theme: announce translations as alternate links #422

Fixes

  • [bug] nav: fix breadcrumbs for deeply nested sections #442
  • [bug] theme: improve whitespacing in tables #441

5.9.4 (2023-01-23)

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: fix search icon and text color #437

5.9.3 (2023-01-22)

Fixes

  • [bug] nav: fix left/right navigation for horizontal scrolling #435
  • [bug][breaking] theme: allow pages on top level #434

Maintenance

  • [task] build: switch to wildcard version of actions #428

5.9.2 (2022-12-30)

Fixes

  • [bug] search: apply dependency scripts for Hindi and Japanese #427

5.9.1 (2022-12-23)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: make external link target configurable #426

5.9.0 (2022-12-23)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] theme: open external links in separate tab #419
  • [feature] theme: make it a Hugo module #417

Fixes

  • [bug][change] attachments: fix incorrect links for defaultContentLanguageInSubdir=true #425

5.8.1 (2022-12-11)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix alias for home page if defaultContentLanguageInSubdir=true #414

5.8.0 (2022-12-08)

Enhancements

  • [feature] icon: add new shortcode #412
  • [feature] theme: style and document markdown extensions #411
  • [feature] badge: add new shortcode #410
  • [feature] theme: add accent color #409

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix spacing for tag flyout in FF #413

5.7.0 (2022-11-29)

Enhancements

  • [feature] button: refactor for a11y #372

Fixes

  • [bug] search: don’t freeze browser on long search terms #408
  • [bug] search: fix searchbox placeholder color in FF and IE #405
  • [bug][change] i18n: rename Korean translation from country to lang code #404

Maintenance

  • [task] search: update lunr languages to 1.10.0 #403

5.6.6 (2022-11-23)

Enhancements

  • [feature] search: make build and js forgiving against config errors #400

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: minor color adjustments #402
  • [bug] variant: fix generator for use of neon #401

5.6.5 (2022-11-19)

Fixes

  • [bug] menu: relax usage of background color #399

5.6.4 (2022-11-19)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: make alias pages usable by file:// protocol #398

5.6.3 (2022-11-19)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: be compatible with Hugo >= 0.95.0 #397

5.6.2 (2022-11-19)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: build breaks sites without “output” section in config #396

5.6.1 (2022-11-19)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix image distortion #395

5.6.0 (2022-11-18)

Enhancements

  • [feature] toc: improve keyboard handling #390
  • [feature] search: improve keyboard handling #387
  • [feature] search: add dedicated search page #386
  • [feature] theme: make creation of generator meta tag configurable #383
  • [feature] theme: increase build performance #380

Fixes

  • [bug] mermaid: avoid leading whitespace #394
  • [bug] theme: fix build errors when referencing SVGs in markdown #393
  • [bug] variant: avoid neon to leak into IE11 fallback #392
  • [bug] theme: fix urls for file:// protocol in sitemap #385
  • [bug] theme: add id to h1 elements #384
  • [bug] rss: fix display of hidden subpages #382
  • [bug] nav: fix key navigation when pressing wrong modifiers #379

Maintenance

  • [task] mermaid: update to version 9.2.2 #391

5.5.3 (2022-11-10)

Fixes

  • [bug] tags: fix non-latin tag display on pages #378

5.5.2 (2022-11-08)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix typo in 404.html #376
  • [bug] theme: allow menu items and children to be served by file:// protocol #375

5.5.1 (2022-11-07)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix overflowing issue with anchors and tooltips #364

5.5.0 (2022-11-06)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] theme: optimize page load for images #304

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix context in render hooks #373
  • [bug] print: make canonical URL absolute #371

5.4.3 (2022-11-05)

Enhancements

  • [feature] history: refactor for a11y #341

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix multilang links when site served from subdirectory #370

5.4.2 (2022-11-05)

Maintenance

  • [task] build: change set-output to env vars #348

5.4.1 (2022-11-05)

Fixes

  • [bug] mermaid: fix Gantt chart width #365

5.4.0 (2022-11-01)

Enhancements

  • [feature] math: allow passing of parameters with codefence syntax #363
  • [feature] i18n: add Finnish translation #361
  • [feature] mermaid: allow passing of parameters with codefence syntax #360
  • [feature] i18n: support RTL #357
  • [feature][change] button: add option for target #351
  • [feature][change] theme: allow to be served by file:// protocol #349

5.3.3 (2022-10-09)

Fixes

  • [bug] archetypes: fix frontmatter on home.md template #346

5.3.2 (2022-10-08)

Fixes

  • [bug] nav: change defunct keyboard shortcuts #344

5.3.1 (2022-10-08)

Enhancements

  • [feature] i18n: update Spanish translation #343
  • [feature] theme: option to align images #327

5.3.0 (2022-10-07)

Enhancements

  • [feature] expander: improve whitespace between label and content #338
  • [feature] swagger: improve print version #333

Fixes

  • [bug] print: fix links of subsections #340
  • [bug] theme: remove W3C validator errors #337
  • [bug] children: remove unused page parameter from docs #336
  • [bug] print: remove menu placeholder in Firefox #335
  • [bug] swagger: fix download button overflow #334
  • [bug][change] a11y: remove WCAG errors where applicable #307

5.2.4 (2022-10-02)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: remove HTML5 validator errors #329

5.2.3 (2022-09-12)

Fixes

  • [bug] print: chapter pages overwrite font-size #328

5.2.2 (2022-08-23)

Fixes

  • [bug] print: fix urls for uglyURLs=true #322

5.2.1 (2022-08-05)

Enhancements

  • [feature] i18n: improve Japanese translation #318

Fixes

  • [bug] nav: prev/next ignores ordersectionby #320

Maintenance

  • [task] task: bump Hugo minimum requirement to 0.95 #319

5.2.0 (2022-08-03)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] menu: expand collapsed menus if search term is found in submenus #312

Fixes

  • [bug] print: switch mermaid and swagger style before print #316
  • [bug] theme: fix chapter margins on big screens #315

5.1.2 (2022-07-18)

Fixes

  • [bug] print: reset mermaid theme to light #313
  • [bug] mermaid: header is showing up in FF #311

5.1.1 (2022-07-15)

Fixes

  • [bug] tags: don’t count tags if page is hidden #310

5.1.0 (2022-07-15)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] print: make print url deterministic #309
  • [feature] theme: allow overriding partials for output formats #308

5.0.3 (2022-07-07)

Fixes

  • [bug] ie11: no styles after rework of archetypes #306

5.0.2 (2022-07-07)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: load CSS if JS is disabled #305

5.0.1 (2022-07-07)

Enhancements

  • [feature][breaking] theme: optimize loading of js and css #303

5.0.0 (2022-07-05)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] archetypes: modularize rendering #300
  • [feature] history: don’t reload page when history gets cleared #299
  • [feature] menu: replace expander by fontawesome chevrons #296
  • [feature] theme: align content with topbar icon limits #290
  • [feature] button: allow for empty href #288
  • [feature] i18n: make Simplified Chinese the standard language for the zn code #287
  • [feature] clipboard: move head styles to stylesheet #286
  • [feature] math: add mathjax rendering #235
  • [feature] theme: allow for page heading modification #139

Fixes

  • [bug] favicon: fix URL if site resides in subfolder #302
  • [bug] code: show copy-to-clipboard marker for blocklevel code #298
  • [bug] menu: make active expander visible on hover #297
  • [bug] print: disable arrow navigation #294
  • [bug] print: add missing page break after index or section #292
  • [bug] theme: use more space on wide screens #291
  • [bug] theme: fix size of chapter heading #289

Maintenance

  • [task] chore: update RapiDoc 9.3.3 #301
  • [task] chore: update Mermaid 9.1.3 #293

4.2.5 (2022-06-23)

Fixes

  • [bug] swagger: javascript code does not load in documentation #285
  • [bug] children: descriptions not working #284
  • [bug] print: fix empty page for shortcut links #283

4.2.4 (2022-06-23)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix url for logo and home button #282

4.2.3 (2022-06-23)

Fixes

  • [bug][breaking] include: second parameter is ignored #281

4.2.2 (2022-06-23)

No changelog for this release.


4.2.1 (2022-06-23)

No changelog for this release.


4.2.0 (2022-06-23)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] tabs: don’t change tab selection if panel does not contain item #279
  • [feature] shortcodes: convert to partials #277

Fixes

  • [bug] swagger: avoid builtin syntax-highlightning #280
  • [bug] search: fix console message for missing lunr translations #278
  • [bug] tabs: fix wrapping when having many tabs #272

4.1.1 (2022-06-18)

Fixes

  • [bug] notice: fix layout when content starts with heading #275

4.1.0 (2022-06-12)

Enhancements

  • [feature] i18n: support multilang content #271

4.0.5 (2022-06-12)

Fixes

  • [bug] i18n: Vietnamese language with wrong lang code #270
  • [bug] i18n: fix search for non western languages #269

4.0.4 (2022-06-07)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: improve keyboard navigation for scrolling #268

Fixes

  • [bug] swagger: adjust font-size for method buttons #267
  • [bug] menu: hide expander when only hidden subpages #264
  • [bug] theme: make compatible with Hugo 0.100.0 #263

Maintenance

  • [task] swagger: update rapidoc to 9.3.2 #266
  • [task] mermaid: update to 9.1.1 #265

4.0.3 (2022-06-05)

Enhancements

  • [feature] toc: add scrollbar #262

4.0.2 (2022-06-05)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: let browser scroll page on CTRL+f #242

4.0.1 (2022-06-05)

No changelog for this release.


4.0.0 (2022-06-05)

Enhancements

  • [feature] shortcodes: add named parameter if missing #260
  • [feature][breaking] theme: remove –MAIN-ANCHOR-color from stylesheet #256
  • [feature] i18n: add Italian translation #254
  • [feature] attachments: support for brand colors #252
  • [feature] notice: support for brand colors #251
  • [feature][breaking] config: remove custom_css #248
  • [feature] theme: use proper file extension for page-meta.go #246
  • [feature] variant: add support for brand color variables #239
  • [feature] i18n: add Polish translation #237

Fixes

  • [bug] shortcodes: accept boolean parameters if given as string #261
  • [bug] print: adjust button and tab size #259
  • [bug] print: show Mermaid if requested in frontmatter #255
  • [bug] theme: adjust thin scrollbar slider #244
  • [bug] mobile: fix broken scrollbar #243
  • [bug] theme: fix display of tooltip for heading anchor #241

3.4.1 (2022-04-03)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix IE11 incompatibilities #234

3.4.0 (2022-04-03)

Enhancements

  • [feature] i18n: add Traditional Chinese translation #233
  • [feature] menu: expand/collapse menu items without navigation #231
  • [feature] print: add option to print whole chapter #230
  • [feature][breaking] theme: apply user supplied content footer below content #229

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: scroll to heading on initial load #232

3.3.0 (2022-03-28)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: add CSS font variables #227
  • [feature] swagger: add support for oas/swagger documentation #226

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: make variant switch work on slow networks #228

3.2.1 (2022-03-25)

Fixes

  • [bug] print: fix minor inconsistencies #225
  • [bug] print: show more than just the title page #224
  • [bug] theme: align content scrollbar to the right on big screens #223

3.2.0 (2022-03-19)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] mermaid: support differing themes for color variant switch #219
  • [feature] mermaid: load javascript on demand #218

Maintenance

  • [task] mermaid: update to 8.14.0 #220

3.1.1 (2022-03-16)

Enhancements

  • [feature] i18n: add Korean translation #217

3.1.0 (2022-03-15)

Enhancements

  • [feature] notice: add icon parameter #212
  • [feature] mobile: remove breadcrumb ellipsis #211

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: make storage of multiple Hugo sites on same server distinct #214
  • [bug] variant: switch breadcrumb color in Chrome #213
  • [bug] mobile: improve behavior of sidebar menu #210

3.0.4 (2022-02-24)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: improve font loading #201
  • [feature][change] variant: fix inconsistent color variable naming #200

Fixes

  • [bug] variant: fix occasional fail when resetting generator #208
  • [bug] docs: don’t move header on logo hover in IE11 #207
  • [bug] variant: avoid flash of menu header when non default variant is active #206
  • [bug] theme: fix wrong HTML closing tag order in chapters #205
  • [bug] theme: adjust breadcrumb and title for empty home page titles #202

3.0.3 (2022-02-23)

Enhancements

  • [feature] tags: show tag count in taxonomy list #195

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: remove Hugo build warning if page is not file based #197
  • [bug] tags: adhere to titleSeparator #196
  • [bug] theme: hide footer divider and variant selector in IE11 #194

3.0.2 (2022-02-23)

Enhancements

  • [feature] tags: sort by name #193

3.0.1 (2022-02-23)

Enhancements

  • [feature] children: set containerstyle automatically according to style #192

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: revert fontawsome to version 5 for IE11 compat #191

3.0.0 (2022-02-22)

Enhancements

  • [feature] variant: build a variant generator #188
  • [feature] nav: only show toc if the page has headings #182
  • [feature][breaking] theme: change default colors to Relearn defaults #181
  • [feature] variant: add a variant selector #178
  • [feature][breaking] menu: rework footer UX #177
  • [feature] theme: support for dark mode #175
  • [feature] docs: use light syntax highlightning theme #174
  • [feature] notice: tweak dull colors #173
  • [feature] theme: rework header UX #151

Fixes

  • [bug] search: remove additional X in filled out search box in IE11 #190
  • [bug] clipboard: localize tooltips #186
  • [bug] print: hide sidebar on Mac #183
  • [bug] menu: fix scrollbar height #180
  • [bug][change] search: fix color change for icons on hover #176

2.9.6 (2022-02-07)

Fixes

  • [bug] menu: remove debug output #171

2.9.5 (2022-02-07)

Fixes

  • [bug] menu: let arrow navigation respect ordersectionsby configuration #170

2.9.4 (2022-02-06)

Fixes

  • [bug] exampleSite: fix links in official documentation #168

2.9.3 (2022-02-06)

Fixes

  • [bug] menu: invalid URL when the shortcut is an internal link #163

2.9.2 (2021-11-26)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: add theme version info to head #158

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix selection of *.ico files as favicons #160

2.9.1 (2021-11-22)

Fixes

  • [bug] menu: fix significantly low performance for collecting of meta info #157

2.9.0 (2021-11-19)

Fixes

  • [bug][breaking] relref: fix inconsistent behavior #156
  • [bug] search: make dropdown stick to search field when scrolling #155
  • [bug] menu: align long text properly #154
  • [bug] copyToClipBoard: add missing right border for inline code if disableInlineCopyToClipBoard=true #153
  • [bug] menu: show hidden sibling pages reliably #152
  • [bug] menu: bring active item in sight for large menus #149

2.8.3 (2021-11-09)

Fixes

  • [bug] mermaid: let zoom reset to initial size #145
  • [bug] mermaid: remove whitespace from big graphs #143

2.8.2 (2021-11-08)

Fixes

  • [bug] mermaid: always load javascript to avoid break if code fences are used #142

2.8.1 (2021-11-04)

Fixes

  • [bug] search: don’t break JS in multilang setup if search is disabled #140

2.8.0 (2021-11-03)

Enhancements

  • [feature] toc: make disableTOC globally available via config.toml #133
  • [feature] mermaid: only load javascript if necessary #95
  • [feature][change] theme: switch font #83
  • [feature] theme: make favicon configurable #2

Fixes

  • [bug] mermaid: assert that window.mermaid is actually mermaid #136
  • [bug] menu: remove usage of Hugos UniqueID #131
  • [bug] theme: reduce margin for children shortcode #130
  • [bug] theme: left-align h3 in chapters #129
  • [bug] theme: align copy link to clipboard #128

2.7.0 (2021-10-24)

Enhancements

  • [feature] notice: support custom titles #124

2.6.0 (2021-10-21)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: generate correct links if theme served from subdirectory #120

2.5.1 (2021-10-12)

Fixes

  • [bug] security: fix XSS for malicioius image URLs #117

2.5.0 (2021-10-08)

Enhancements

  • [feature][change] syntax highlight: provide default colors for unknown languages #113

Fixes

  • [bug] security: fix XSS for malicioius URLs #114
  • [bug] menu: write correct local shortcut links #112

2.4.1 (2021-10-07)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: remove runtime styles from print #111

2.4.0 (2021-10-07)

Enhancements

  • [feature] lang: add vietnamese translation #109
  • [feature][change] theme: simplify stylesheet for color variants #107
  • [feature] hidden pages: remove from RSS feed, JSON, taxonomy etc #102
  • [feature] theme: announce alternative content in header #101
  • [feature] menu: frontmatter option to change sort predicate #98
  • [feature] menu: add default setting for menu expansion #97
  • [feature] theme: improve print style #93
  • [feature] theme: improve style #92

Fixes

  • [bug] include: don’t generate additional HTML if file should be displayed “as is” #110
  • [bug] attachments: fix broken links if multilang config is used #105
  • [bug] theme: fix sticky header to remove horizontal scrollbar #82

Maintenance

  • [task] chore: update fontawesome #94

2.3.2 (2021-09-20)

Fixes

  • [bug] docs: rename history pirate translation #91

2.3.1 (2021-09-20)

Fixes

  • [bug] docs: rename english pirate translation to avoid crash on rendering #90

2.3.0 (2021-09-13)

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix usage of section element #88

Maintenance

  • [task] theme: ensure IE11 compatiblity #89
  • [task] docs: Arrr! showcase multilang featurrre #87

2.2.0 (2021-09-09)

Enhancements

  • [feature] sitemap: hide hidden pages from sitemap and SEO indexing #85

Fixes

  • [bug] theme: fix showVisitedLinks in case Hugo is configured to modify relative URLs #86

Maintenance

  • [task] theme: switch from data-vocabulary to schema #84

2.1.0 (2021-09-07)

Enhancements

  • [feature] search: open expand if it contains search term #80
  • [feature] menu: scroll active item into view #79
  • [feature] search: disable search in hidden pages #76
  • [feature] search: improve readablility of index.json #75
  • [feature] search: increase performance #74
  • [feature] search: improve search context preview #73

Fixes

  • [bug][change] search: hide non-site content #81
  • [bug] menu: always hide hidden sub pages #77

2.0.0 (2021-08-28)

Enhancements

  • [feature] tabs: enhance styling #65
  • [feature] theme: improve readability #64
  • [feature] menu: show hidden pages if accessed directly #60
  • [feature][change] theme: treat pages without title as hidden #59
  • [feature] search: show search results if field gains focus #58
  • [feature] theme: add partial templates for pre/post menu entries #56
  • [feature] theme: make chapter archetype more readable #55
  • [feature] children: add parameter for container style #53
  • [feature] theme: make content a template #50
  • [feature] menu: control menu expansion with alwaysopen parameter #49
  • [feature] include: new shortcode to include other files #43
  • [feature] theme: adjust print styles #35
  • [feature][change] code highlighter: switch to standard hugo highlighter #32

Fixes

  • [bug][change] arrow-nav: default sorting ignores ordersectionsby #63
  • [bug][change] children: default sorting ignores ordersectionsby #62
  • [bug][change] arrow-nav: fix broken links on (and below) hidden pages #61
  • [bug] theme: remove superfluous singular taxonomy from taxonomy title #46
  • [bug][change] theme: missing –MENU-HOME-LINK-HOVER-color in documentation #45
  • [bug] theme: fix home link when base URL has some path #44

Maintenance

  • [task] docs: include changelog in exampleSite #33

1.2.0 (2021-07-26)

Enhancements

  • [feature] theme: adjust copy-to-clipboard #29
  • [feature] attachments: adjust style between notice boxes and attachments #28
  • [feature] theme: adjust blockquote contrast #27
  • [feature] expand: add option to open on page load #25
  • [feature] expand: rework styling #24
  • [feature] attachments: sort output #23
  • [feature] notice: make restyling of notice boxes more robust #20
  • [feature] notice: fix contrast issues #19
  • [feature] notice: align box colors to common standards #18
  • [feature] notice: use distinct icons for notice box type #17

Fixes

  • [bug] attachments: support i18n for attachment size #21
  • [bug] notice: support i18n for box labels #16
  • [bug] notice: support multiple blocks in one box #15

Maintenance

  • [task] dependency: upgrade jquery to 3.6.0 #30

1.1.1 (2021-07-04)

Maintenance

  • [task] theme: prepare for new hugo theme registration #13

1.1.0 (2021-07-02)

Enhancements

  • [feature] mermaid: expose options in config.toml #4

Fixes

  • [bug] mermaid: config option for CDN url not used #12
  • [bug] mermaid: only highlight text in HTML elements #10
  • [bug] mermaid: support pan & zoom for graphs #9
  • [bug] mermaid: code fences not always rendered #6
  • [bug] mermaid: search term on load may bomb chart #5

Maintenance

  • [task] mermaid: update to 8.10.2 #7

1.0.1 (2021-07-01)

Maintenance

  • [task] Prepare for hugo showcase #3

1.0.0 (2021-07-01)

Maintenance

  • [task] Fork project #1
Chapter 2

Content

Find out how to create and organize your content quickly and intuitively.

Subsections of Content

Pages organization

In Hugo, pages are the core of your site. Once it is configured, pages are definitely the added value to your documentation site.

Folders

Organize your site like any other Hugo project. Typically, you will have a content folder with all your pages.

content
├── level-one
│   ├── level-two
│   │   ├── level-three
│   │   │   ├── level-four
│   │   │   │   ├── _index.md       <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three/level-four
│   │   │   │   ├── page-4-a.md     <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three/level-four/page-4-a
│   │   │   │   ├── page-4-b.md     <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three/level-four/page-4-b
│   │   │   │   └── page-4-c.md     <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three/level-four/page-4-c
│   │   │   ├── _index.md           <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three
│   │   │   ├── page-3-a.md         <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three/page-3-a
│   │   │   ├── page-3-b.md         <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three/page-3-b
│   │   │   └── page-3-c.md         <-- /level-one/level-two/level-three/page-3-c
│   │   ├── _index.md               <-- /level-one/level-two
│   │   ├── page-2-a.md             <-- /level-one/level-two/page-2-a
│   │   ├── page-2-b.md             <-- /level-one/level-two/page-2-b
│   │   └── page-2-c.md             <-- /level-one/level-two/page-2-c
│   ├── _index.md                   <-- /level-one
│   ├── page-1-a.md                 <-- /level-one/page-1-a
│   ├── page-1-b.md                 <-- /level-one/page-1-b
│   └── page-1-c.md                 <-- /level-one/page-1-c
├── _index.md                       <-- /
└── page-top.md                     <-- /page-top
Note

_index.md is required in each folder, it’s your “folder home page”

Create your project

The following steps are here to help you initialize your new website. If you don’t know Hugo at all, we strongly suggest you to train by following great documentation for beginners.

Hugo provides a new command to create a new website.

hugo new site <new_project>

The Relearn theme provides archetypes to help you create this kind of pages.

Frontmatter

Each Hugo page has to define a frontmatter in toml, yaml or json. This site will use toml for documentation in all cases.

+++
# If an option value is said to be not set, you can achieve the same behavior
# by given it an empty string value.

###############################################################################
# Hugo
# These options usually apply to other themes aswell.

# The social media image of your page.
# Default: not set
# This is used for generating social media meta information for the opengraph
# protocol and twitter cards.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
images = [ "images/hero.png" ]

# The title of your page.
# Default: not set
# A page without a title is treated as a hidden page.
title = "Example Page"

# The description of your page.
# Default: not set
# This is used for generating HTML meta tags, social media meta information
# for the opengraph protocol and twitter cards.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used for the html
# meta tag, social media meta information for the opengraph protocol and
# twitter cards.
description = ""

###############################################################################
# Relearn Theme
# These options are specific to the Relearn theme.

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Topbar
# These options modify the topbar appearance.

# Hide the table of contents button.
# Default: false
# If the TOC button is hidden, also the keyboard shortcut is disabled.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
disableToc = false

# Hide the breadcrumbs.
# Default: false
# If the breadcrumbs are hidden, the title of the displayed page will still be
# shown in the topbar.
disableBreadcrumb = false

# Hide Next and Previous navigation buttons.
# Default: false
# If the navigation buttons are hidden, also the keyboard shortcuts are
# disabled.
disableNextPrev = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Menu
# These options modify the menu apperance.

# The title in main menu.
# Default: <title>
# If set, this will be used for the page's menu entry instead of the `title`
# option.
menuTitle = ""

# Prefix for the title in main menu.
# Default: not set
# The title of the page in the menu will be prefixed by this HTML content.
menuPre = ""

# Suffix for the title in main menu.
# Default: not set
# The title of the page in the menu will be suffixed by this HTML content.
menuPost = ""

# The order of main menu submenus.
# Default: "weight"
# Submenus can be ordered by "weight", "title", "linktitle", "modifieddate",
# "expirydate", "publishdate", "date", "length" or "default" (adhering to
# Hugo's default sort order).
# If not set, the value of the parent menu entry is used.
ordersectionsby = "weight"

# The initial expand state of submenus.
# Default: not set
# This controls whether submenus will be expanded (true), or collapsed (false)
# in the menu. If not set, the first menu level is set to false, all others
# levels are set to true. If not set, the value of the parent menu entry is used.
# If the displayed page has submenus, they will always been displayed expanded
# regardless of this option.
alwaysopen = ""

# Shows expander for submenus.
# Default: false
# If set to true, a submenu in the sidebar will be displayed in a collapsible
# tree view and a clickable expander is set in front of the entry.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
collapsibleMenu = true

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Hidden pages
# These options configure how hidden pages are treated.
# A page flagged as hidden, is only removed from the main menu if you are
# currently not on this page or the hidden page is not part of current page's
# ancestors. For all other functionality in Hugo a hidden page behaves like any
# other page if not otherwise configured.

# Hide a page's menu entry.
# Default: false
# If this value is true, the page is hidden from the menu.
hidden = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Content
# These options modify how your content is displayed.

# Prefix for the title in the content area.
# Default: not set
# The title of the page heading will be prefixed by this HTML content.
headingPre = ""

# Suffix for the title in the content area.
# Default: not set
# The title of the page heading will be suffixed by this HTML content.
headingPost = ""

# Display name of the page's last editor.
# Default: not set
# If set, it will be displayed in the default footer.
LastModifierDisplayName = ""

# Email address of the page's last editor.
# Default: not set
# If set together with LastModifierDisplayName, it will be displayed in the
# default footer.
LastModifierEmail = ""

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Highlight
# These options configure how code is displayed.

# Wrap for code blocks.
# Default: true
# By default lines of code blocks wrap around if the line is too long to be
# displayed on screen. If you dislike this behavior, you can reconfigure it
# here.
# Note that lines always wrap in print mode regardless of this option.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used or given as a
# parameter to individual code blocks.
highlightWrap = true

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Images
# These options configure how images are displayed.

# Image effects.
# See the documentation for how you can even add your own arbitrary effects to
# the list.
# All effect values default to the values of your site's hugo.toml and can be
# overridden thru URL parameter given to the image. See the documentation for
# details.

# Default: false
imageEffects.border = true
# Default: true
imageEffects.lightbox = true
# Default: false
imageEffects.shadow = false

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# MathJax
# These options configure how math formulae are displayed.

# Initialization options for MathJax.
# Default: not set
# A JSON value. See the MathJaxdocumentation for possible parameter.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
mathJaxInitialize = "{}"

# Only load MathJax if needed.
# Default: true
# If a Math shortcode is found, the option will be ignored and
# MathJax will be loaded regardlessly. The option is still useful in case you
# are using scripting to set up your graph. In this case no shortcode or
# codefence is involved and the library is not loaded by default. In this case
# you can set `disableMathJax=false` in your frontmatter to force the library to
# be loaded.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
disableMathJax = true

# URL for external MathJax library.
# Default: not set
# Specifies the remote location of the MathJax library. By default the shipped
# version will be used.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
customMathJaxURL = "" # "https://unpkg.com/mathjax/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js"

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Mermaid
# These options configure how Mermaid graphs are displayed.

# Make graphs panable and zoomable
# Default: false
# For huge graphs it can be helpful to make them zoomable. Zoomable graphs come
# with a reset button for the zoom.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used or given as a
# parameter to individual graphs.
mermaidZoom = true

# Initialization options for Mermaid.
# Default: not set
# A JSON value. See the Mermaid documentation for possible parameter.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
mermaidInitialize = "{ \"securityLevel\": \"loose\" }"

# Only load Mermaid if needed.
# Default: true
# If a Mermaid shortcode or codefence is found, the option will be ignored and
# Mermaid will be loaded regardlessly. The option is still useful in case you
# are using scripting to set up your graph. In this case no shortcode or
# codefence is involved and the library is not loaded by default. In this case
# you can set `disableMermaid=false` in your frontmatter to force the library to
# be loaded.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
disableMermaid = true

# URL for external Mermaid library.
# Default: not set
# Specifies the remote location of the Mermaid library. By default the shipped
# version will be used.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
customMermaidURL = "" # "https://unpkg.com/mermaid/dist/mermaid.min.js"

#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# OpenApi
# These options configure how OpenAPI specifications are displayed.

# Only load OpenAPI if needed.
# Default: true
# If a OpenAPI shortcode is found, the option will be ignored and
# OpenAPI will be loaded regardlessly. The option is still useful in case you
# are using scripting to set up your graph. In this case no shortcode or
# codefence is involved and the library is not loaded by default. In this case
# you can set `disableOpenapi=false` in your frontmatter to force the library to
# be loaded.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
disableOpenapi = true

# URL for external OpenAPI library.
# Default: not set
# Specifies the remote location of the OpenAPI library. By default the shipped
# version will be used.
# If not set, the set value of your site's hugo.toml is used.
customOpenapiURL = "" # "https://unpkg.com/swagger-ui-dist/swagger-ui-bundle.js"
+++

Some Detailed Examples

Add Icon to a Menu Entry

In the page frontmatter, add a menuPre param to insert any HTML code before the menu label. The example below uses the GitHub icon.

+++
title = "GitHub repo"
menuPre = "<i class='fab fa-github'></i> "
+++

Title with icon Title with icon

Ordering Sibling Menu/Page Entries

Hugo provides a flexible way to handle order for your pages.

The simplest way is to set weight parameter to a number.

+++
title = "My page"
weight = 5
+++

Using a Custom Title for Menu Entries

By default, the Relearn theme will use a page’s title attribute for the menu item (or linkTitle if defined).

But a page’s title has to be descriptive on its own while the menu is a hierarchy. We’ve added the menuTitle parameter for that purpose:

For example (for a page named content/install/linux.md):

+++
title = "Install on Linux"
menuTitle = "Linux"
+++

Override Expand State Rules for Menu Entries

You can change how the theme expands menu entries on the side of the content with the alwaysopen setting on a per page basis. If alwaysopen=false for any given entry, its children will not be shown in the menu as long as it is not necessary for the sake of navigation.

The theme generates the menu based on the following rules:

  • all parent entries of the active page including their siblings are shown regardless of any settings
  • immediate children entries of the active page are shown regardless of any settings
  • if not overridden, all other first level entries behave like they would have been given alwaysopen=false
  • if not overridden, all other entries of levels besides the first behave like they would have been given alwaysopen=true
  • all visible entries show their immediate children entries if alwaysopen=true; this proceeds recursively
  • all remaining entries are not shown

You can see this feature in action on the example page for children shortcode and its children pages.

Disable Section Pages

You may want to structure your pages in a hierachical way but don’t want to generate pages for those sections? The theme got you covered.

To stay with the initial example: Suppose you want level-one appear in the sidebar but don’t want to generate a page for it. So the entry in the sidebar should not be clickable but should show an expander.

For this, open content/level-one/_index.md and add the following frontmatter

+++
collapsibleMenu = true # this adds the expander to the menu entry if not already set in your hugo.toml
[_build]
  render = "never" # no page will be generated so the page does not have a url
+++

Archetypes

Using the command: hugo new [relative new content path], you can start a content file with the date and title automatically set. While this is a welcome feature, active writers need more: archetypes. These are preconfigured skeleton pages with default frontmatter.

The Relearn theme defines some few archetypes of pages but you are free to define new ones to your liking. All can be used at any level of the documentation, the only difference being the layout of the content.

Predefined Archetypes

Home

A Home page is the starting page of your project. It’s best to have only one page of this kind in your project.

Home page Home page

To create a home page, run the following command

hugo new --kind home _index.md

This leads to a file with the following content

+++
archetype = "home"
title = "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
+++

Lorem Ipsum.

Chapter

A Chapter displays a page meant to be used as introduction for a set of child pages. Commonly, it contains a simple title and a catch line to define content that can be found below it.

Chapter page Chapter page

To create a chapter page, run the following command

hugo new --kind chapter <name>/_index.md

This leads to a file with the following content

+++
archetype = "chapter"
title = "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
weight = X
+++

Lorem Ipsum.

Replace the X with a number. Because this number will be used to generate the subtitle of the chapter page, set the number to a consecutive value starting at 1 for each new chapter level.

Default

A Default page is any other content page. If you set an unknown archetype in your frontmatter, this archetype will be used to generate the page.

Default page Default page

To create a default page, run either one of the following commands

hugo new <chapter>/<name>/_index.md

or

hugo new <chapter>/<name>.md

This leads to a file with the following content

+++
title = "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
weight = X
+++

Lorem Ipsum.

Replace the X with a number or delete the whole weight parameter entirely.

Self defined Archetypes

If you are in need of further archetypes you can define your own or even redefine existing ones.

Template

Define a template file in your project at archetypes/<kind>.md and make sure it has at least the frontmatter parameter for that archetype like

+++
archetype = "<kind>"
+++

Afterwards you can generate new content files of that kind with the following command

hugo new --kind <kind> <name>/_index.md

Partials

To define how your archetypes are rendered, define corresponding partial files in your projects directory layouts/partials/archetypes/<kind>.

If you use an unknown archetype in your frontmatter, the default archetype will be used to generate the page.

Related to each archetype, several hook partial files in the form of <hook>.html can be given inside each archetype directory. If a partial for a specific hook is missing, no output is generated for this hook.

The following hooks are used:

Name Notes
styleclass Defines a set of CSS classes to be added to the HTML’s <main> element. You can use these classes to define own CSS rules in your custom-header.html
article Defines the HTML how to render your content

Take a look at the existing archetypes of this theme to get an idea how to utilize it.

Output formats

Each hook file can be overridden of a specific output format. Eg. if you define a new output format PLAINTEXT in your hugo.toml, you can add a file layouts/partials/archetypes/default.plaintext.html to change the way how normal content is written for that output format.

Markdown syntax

Let’s face it: Writing content for the web is tiresome. WYSIWYG editors help alleviate this task, but they generally result in horrible code, or worse yet, ugly web pages.

Markdown is a better way to write HTML, without all the complexities and ugliness that usually accompanies it.

Some of the key benefits are:

  1. Markdown is simple to learn, with minimal extra characters so it’s also quicker to write content.
  2. Less chance of errors when writing in Markdown.
  3. Produces valid HTML output.
  4. Keeps the content and the visual display separate, so you cannot mess up the look of your site.
  5. Write in any text editor or Markdown application you like.
  6. Markdown is a joy to use!

John Gruber, the author of Markdown, puts it like this:

The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email. John Gruber

Without further delay, let us go over the main elements of Markdown and what the resulting HTML looks like:

Tip

Bookmark this page and the official Commonmark reference for easy future reference!

Paragraphs

In Markdown your content usually spans the whole available document width. This is called a block. Blocks are always separated by whitespace to their adjacent blocks in the resulting document.

Any text not starting with a special sign is written as normal, plain text paragraph block and must be separated to its adjacent blocks by empty lines.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus.

Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.
Result

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus.

Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.

Headings

A good idea is to structure your content using headings and subheadings. HTML-headings from h1 through h6 are constructed with a # for each level.

In Hugo you usually don’t use h1 as this is generated by your theme and you should only have one such element in a document.

# h1 Heading

## h2 Heading

### h3 Heading

#### h4 Heading

##### h5 Heading

###### h6 Heading
Result

h1 Heading

h2 Heading

h3 Heading

h4 Heading

h5 Heading
h6 Heading

Horizontal Rules

To further structure your content you can add horizontal rules. They create a “thematic break” between paragraph blocks. In Markdown, you can create it with three consecutive dashes ---.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus.

---

Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.
Result

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus.


Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.

Text Markers

Bold

You can show importance of a snippet of text with a heavier font-weight by enclosing it with two asterisks **.

I am rendered with **bold text**
Result

I am rendered with bold text

Italics

You can emphasize a snippet of text with italics by enclosing it with underscores _.

I am rendered with _italicized text_
Result

I am rendered with italicized text

Strikethrough

In GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) you can do strikethroughs by enclosing text with two tildes ~~.

~~Strike through this text~~
Result

Strike through this text

Text substitution

This Markdown dialect supports an extension to combine multiple punctuation characters to single typographic entities. This will only be applied to text outside of code blocks or inline code.

Double quotes `"` and single quotes `'` of enclosed text are replaced by **"double curly quotes"** and **'single curly quotes'**.

Double dashes `--` and triple dashes `---` are replaced by en-dash **--** and em-dash **---** entities.

Double arrows pointing left `<<` or right `>>` are replaced by arrow **<<** and **>>** entities.

Three consecutive dots `...` are replaced by an ellipsis **...** entity.
Result

Double quotes " and single quotes ' of enclosed text are replaced by “double curly quotes” and ‘single curly quotes’.

Double dashes -- and triple dashes --- are replaced by en-dash and em-dash entities.

Double arrows pointing left << or right >> are replaced by arrow « and » entities.

Three consecutive dots ... are replaced by an ellipsis entity.

Lists

Unordered

You can write a list of items in which the order of the items does not explicitly matter.

It is possible to nest lists by indenting an item for the next sublevel.

You may use any of -, * or + to denote bullets for each list item but should not switch between those symbols inside one whole list.

- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
- Consectetur adipiscing elit
  - Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem
  - Ac tristique libero volutpat at
- Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
  - Phasellus iaculis neque
  - Purus sodales ultricies
- Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
Result
  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
  • Consectetur adipiscing elit
    • Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem
    • Ac tristique libero volutpat at
  • Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
    • Phasellus iaculis neque
    • Purus sodales ultricies
  • Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel

Ordered

You can create a list of items in which the order of items does explicitly matter.

It is possible to nest lists by indenting an item for the next sublevel.

Markdown will automatically number each of your items consecutively. This means, the order number you are providing is irrelevant.

1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
3. Consectetur adipiscing elit
    1. Integer molestie lorem at massa
    7. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
99. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
    1. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
    1. Aenean sit amet erat nunc
17. Eget porttitor lorem
Result
  1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
  2. Consectetur adipiscing elit
    1. Integer molestie lorem at massa
    2. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
  3. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
    1. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
    2. Aenean sit amet erat nunc
  4. Eget porttitor lorem

Tasks

In GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) you can add task lists resulting in checked or unchecked non-clickable items

- [x] Basic Test
- [ ] More Tests
  - [x] View
  - [x] Hear
  - [ ] Smell
Result
  • Basic Test
  • More Tests
    • View
    • Hear
    • Smell

Definitions

This Markdown dialect supports an extension to add definition lists. Definition lists are made of terms and definitions of these terms, much like in a dictionary.

A definition list in Markdown Extra is made of a single-line term followed by a colon and the definition for that term. You can also associate more than one term to a definition.

If you add empty lines around the definition terms, additional vertical space will be generated. Also multiple paragraphs are possible

Apple
: Pomaceous fruit of plants of the genus Malus in the family Rosaceae.
: An American computer company.

Orange
: The fruit of an evergreen tree of the genus Citrus.

  You can make juice out of it.
: A telecommunication company.

  You can't make juice out of it.
Result
Apple
Pomaceous fruit of plants of the genus Malus in the family Rosaceae.
An American computer company.
Orange
The fruit of an evergreen tree of the genus Citrus.

You can make juice out of it.

A telecommunication company.

You can’t make juice out of it.

Code

Inline Code

Inline snippets of code can be wrapped with backticks `.

In this example, `<div></div>` is marked as code.
Result

In this example, <div></div> is marked as code.

Indented Code Block

A simple code block can be generated by indenting several lines of code by at least two spaces.

Be impressed by my advanced code:

    // Some comments
    line 1 of code
    line 2 of code
    line 3 of code
Result

Be impressed by my advanced code:

// Some comments
line 1 of code
line 2 of code
line 3 of code

Fenced Code Block

If you want to gain more control of your code block you can enclose your code by at least three backticks ``` a so called fence.

In GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) you can also add a language specifier directly after the opening fence, ```js, and syntax highlighting will automatically be applied according to the selected language in the rendered HTML.

See Code Highlighting for additional documentation.

```js
grunt.initConfig({
  assemble: {
    options: {
      assets: 'docs/assets',
      data: 'src/data/*.{json,yml}',
      helpers: 'src/custom-helpers.js',
      partials: ['src/partials/**/*.{hbs,md}']
    },
    pages: {
      options: {
        layout: 'default.hbs'
      },
      files: {
        './': ['src/templates/pages/index.hbs']
      }
    }
  }
};
```
Result
grunt.initConfig({
  assemble: {
    options: {
      assets: 'docs/assets',
      data: 'src/data/*.{json,yml}',
      helpers: 'src/custom-helpers.js',
      partials: ['src/partials/**/*.{hbs,md}']
    },
    pages: {
      options: {
        layout: 'default.hbs'
      },
      files: {
        './': ['src/templates/pages/index.hbs']
      }
    }
  }
};

Tables

In GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) you can create tables by adding pipes as dividers between each cell, and by adding a line of dashes (also separated by bars) beneath the header. Note that the pipes do not need to be vertically aligned.

| Option | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| data   | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. |
| engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. |
| ext    | extension to be used for dest files. |
Result
Option Description
data path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
engine engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
ext extension to be used for dest files.

Aligned Columns

Adding a colon on the left and/or right side of the dashes below any heading will align the text for that column accordingly.

| Option | Number | Description |
|-------:|:------:|:------------|
| data   | 1      | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. |
| engine | 2      | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. |
| ext    | 3      | extension to be used for dest files. |
Result
Option Number Description
data 1 path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
engine 2 engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
ext 3 extension to be used for dest files.

Blockquotes

For quoting blocks of content from another source within your document add > before any text you want to quote.

Blockquotes can also be nested.

> Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue. Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.
>
> > Sed adipiscing elit vitae augue consectetur a gravida nunc vehicula. Donec auctor odio non est accumsan facilisis. Aliquam id turpis in dolor tincidunt mollis ac eu diam.
>
> Mauris sit amet ligula egestas, feugiat metus tincidunt, luctus libero. Donec congue finibus tempor. Vestibulum aliquet sollicitudin erat, ut aliquet purus posuere luctus.
Result

Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue. Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.

Sed adipiscing elit vitae augue consectetur a gravida nunc vehicula. Donec auctor odio non est accumsan facilisis. Aliquam id turpis in dolor tincidunt mollis ac eu diam.

Mauris sit amet ligula egestas, feugiat metus tincidunt, luctus libero. Donec congue finibus tempor. Vestibulum aliquet sollicitudin erat, ut aliquet purus posuere luctus.

In GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) absolute URLs will automatically be converted into a link.

This is a link to https://example.com.
Result

This is a link to https://example.com.

You can explicitly define links in case you want to use non-absolute URLs or want to give different text.

[Assemble](http://assemble.io)
Result

For even further information, you can add an additional text, displayed in a tooltip on hovering over the link.

[Upstage](https://github.com/upstage/ "Visit Upstage!")
Result

Links can be simplyfied for recurring reuse by using a reference ID to later define the URL location. This simplyfies writing if you want to use a link more than once in a document.

[Example][somelinkID]

[somelinkID]: https://example.com "Go to example domain"
Result

Footnotes

Footnotes work mostly like reference-style links. A footnote is made of two things, a marker in the text that will become a superscript number and a footnote definition that will be placed in a list of footnotes.

Usually the list of footnotes will be shown at the end of your document. If we use a footnote in a notice box it will instead be listed at the end of its box.

Footnotes can contain block elements, which means that you can put multiple paragraphs, lists, blockquotes and so on in a footnote. It works the same as for list items, just indent the following paragraphs by four spaces in the footnote definition.

That's some text with a footnote[^1]

[^1]: And that's the footnote.

That's some more text with a footnote.[^someid]

[^someid]:
    Anything of interest goes here.

    Blue light glows blue.
Result

That’s some text with a footnote1

That’s some more text with a footnote.2


  1. And that’s the footnote. ↩︎

  2. Anything of interest goes here.

    Blue light glows blue. ↩︎

Images

Basic Images

Images have a similar syntax to links but include a preceding exclamation mark.

![Spock](https://octodex.github.com/images/spocktocat.png)
Result

Spock Spock

Image with Tooltip

Like links, images can also be given a tooltip.

![Picard](https://octodex.github.com/images/jean-luc-picat.jpg "Jean Luc Picard")
Result

Picard Picard

Image References

Images can also be linked by reference ID to later define the URL location. This simplyfies writing if you want to use an image more than once in a document.

![La Forge][laforge]

[laforge]: https://octodex.github.com/images/trekkie.jpg "Geordi La Forge"
Result

La Forge La Forge

Image Effects

This theme allows additional non-standard formatting by setting query parameter at the end of the image URL. The default behavior is configurable thru your hugo.toml or frontmatter parameter.

Resizing

Add query parameter width and/or height to the link image to resize the image. Values are CSS values (default is auto).

![Minion](https://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png?width=20vw)
Result

Minion Minion

![Minion](https://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png?height=50px)
Result

Minion Minion

![Minion](https://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png?height=50px&width=40vw)
Result

Minion Minion

CSS Classes

Add a query parameter classes to the link image to add CSS classes. Add some of the predefined values or even define your own in your CSS.

Shadow
![Spidertocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/spidertocat.png?classes=shadow)
Result

Spidertocat Spidertocat

Border
![DrOctocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/droctocat.png?classes=border)
Result

DrOctocat DrOctocat

Left
![Supertocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/okal-eltocat.jpg?classes=left)
Result

Supertocat Supertocat

![Riddlocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/riddlocat.jpg?classes=right)
Result

Riddlocat Riddlocat

Inline
![Spidertocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/spidertocat.png?classes=inline)
![DrOctocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/droctocat.png?classes=inline)
![Supertocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/okal-eltocat.jpg?classes=inline)
![Riddlocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/riddlocat.jpg?classes=inline)
Result

Spidertocat Spidertocat DrOctocat DrOctocat Supertocat Supertocat Riddlocat Riddlocat

Combination
![X-tocat](https://octodex.github.com/images/xtocat.jpg?classes=shadow,border,left)
Result

X-tocat X-tocat

Add the query parameter lightbox=false to the image link to disable the lightbox.

![Homercat](https://octodex.github.com/images/homercat.png?lightbox=false)
Result

Homercat

Note

If you want to wrap an image in a link and lightbox=true is your default setting, you have to explicitly disable the lightbox to avoid it to hijacking your link like:

[![Homercat](https://octodex.github.com/images/homercat.png?lightbox=false)](https://octodex.github.com/#homercat)

Homercat

Image Effects

The theme supports non-standard image effects.

As described, you can add this to the URL query parameter, but this may be cumbersome to do it consistently for the whole page.

Instead, you can configure the defaults in your hugo.toml aswell as overriding these default in the pages frontmatter.

Explicitly set URL query parameter will override the defaults in effect for a page.

Without any settings in your hugo.toml this defaults to

[params]
  [params.imageEffects]
    border = false
    lightbox = true
    shadow = false

This can be overridden in a pages frontmatter by eg.

+++
[imageEffects]
  border = true
+++

Or by explicitly override settings by URL query parameter

![Minion](https://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png?lightbox=false&bg-white=true)

The settings applied to the above image would be

  border = true
  lightbox = false
  shadow = false
  bg-white = true

This ends up in the following HTML where the parameter are converted to CSS classes.

<img src="https://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png?lightbox=false&bg-white=true" alt="Minion" class="bg-white border nolightbox noshadow">

Extending

As you can see in the above example, the bg-white parameter is not initially supported in the themes default settings. Nevertheless you are free to define arbitrary parameter by just adding them to the URL query parameter or set them in your hugo.toml or pages frontmatter.

Note

If no extended parameter like bg-white in the example is set on the URL, a class="nobg-white" in the HTML will only be generated if a default value was set in the hugo.toml or pages frontmatter.

Menu extra shortcuts

You can define additional menu entries or shortcuts in the navigation menu without any link to content.

Basic configuration

Edit the website configuration hugo.toml and add a [[menu.shortcuts]] entry for each link your want to add.

Example from the current website:

[[menu.shortcuts]]
name = "<i class='fab fa-fw fa-github'></i> GitHub repo"
identifier = "ds"
url = "https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn"
weight = 10

[[menu.shortcuts]]
name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-camera'></i> Showcases"
url = "showcase/"
weight = 11

[[menu.shortcuts]]
name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-bookmark'></i> Hugo Documentation"
identifier = "hugodoc"
url = "https://gohugo.io/"
weight = 20

[[menu.shortcuts]]
name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-bullhorn'></i> Credits"
url = "more/credits/"
weight = 30

[[menu.shortcuts]]
name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-tags'></i> Tags"
url = "tags/"
weight = 40

By default, shortcuts are preceded by a title. This title can be disabled by setting disableShortcutsTitle=true. However, if you want to keep the title but change its value, it can be overridden by changing your local i18n translation string configuration.

For example, in your local i18n/en.toml file, add the following content

[Shortcuts-Title]
other = "<Your value>"

Read more about hugo menu and hugo i18n translation strings

Configuration for Multilingual mode

When using a multilingual website, you can set different menus for each language. In the hugo.toml file, prefix your menu configuration by Languages.<language-id>.

Example from the current website:

[languages]
  [languages.en]
    title = "Hugo Relearn Theme"
    weight = 1
    languageName = "English"
    [languages.en.params]
      landingPageName = "<i class='fas fa-home'></i> Home"

  [[languages.en.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fab fa-fw fa-github'></i> GitHub repo"
    identifier = "ds"
    url = "https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn"
    weight = 10

  [[languages.en.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-camera'></i> Showcases"
    pageRef = "showcase/"
    weight = 11

  [[languages.en.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-bookmark'></i> Hugo Documentation"
    identifier = "hugodoc"
    url = "https://gohugo.io/"
    weight = 20

  [[languages.en.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-bullhorn'></i> Credits"
    pageRef = "more/credits/"
    weight = 30

  [[languages.en.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-tags'></i> Tags"
    pageRef = "tags/"
    weight = 40

  [languages.pir]
    title = "Cap'n Hugo Relearrrn Theme"
    weight = 1
    languageName = "Arrr! Pirrrates"
    [languages.pir.params]
      landingPageName = "<i class='fas fa-home'></i> Arrr! Home"

  [[languages.pir.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fab fa-fw fa-github'></i> GitHub repo"
    identifier = "ds"
    url = "https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn"
    weight = 10

  [[languages.pir.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-camera'></i> Showcases"
    pageRef = "showcase/"
    weight = 11

  [[languages.pir.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-bookmark'></i> Cap'n Hugo Documentat'n"
    identifier = "hugodoc"
    url = "https://gohugo.io/"
    weight = 20

  [[languages.pir.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-bullhorn'></i> Crrredits"
    pageRef = "more/credits/"
    weight = 30

  [[languages.pir.menu.shortcuts]]
    name = "<i class='fas fa-fw fa-tags'></i> Arrr! Tags"
    pageRef = "tags/"
    weight = 40

Read more about hugo menu and hugo multilingual menus

Shortcuts to pages inside of your project

If you have shortcuts to pages inside of your project and you don’t want them to show up in page menu section, you have two choices:

  1. Make the page file for the shortcut a headless branch bundle (contained in its own subdirectory and called _index.md) and add the following frontmatter configuration to the file (see exampleSite’s content/showcase/_index.en.md). This causes its content to not be ontained in the sitemap.

    title = "Showcase"
    [_build]
      render = "always"
      list = "never"
      publishResources = true
  2. Store the page file for the shortcut below a parent headless branch bundle and add the following frontmatter to he parent (see exampleSite’s content/more/_index.en.md).

    # title = "More" ### ATTENTION: Don't give this page a title as this will cause it to be in the breadcrumbs - a thing you most likely don't want
    [_build]
      render = "never"
      list = "never"
      publishResources = false

    In this case, the file itself can be a branch bundle, leaf bundle or simple page (see exampleSite’s content/more/credits.en.md). This causes its content to be contained in the sitemap.

    title = "Credits"

Multilingual and i18n

The Relearn theme is fully compatible with Hugo multilingual mode.

  • Available languages: Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Vietnamese. Feel free to contribute!
  • Full support for languages written right to left
  • Automatic menu generation from multilingual content
  • In-browser language switching

I18n menu I18n menu

Basic configuration

After learning how Hugo handle multilingual websites, define your languages in your hugo.toml file.

For example with current English and Piratized English website.

Note

Make sure your default language is defined as the first one in the [languages] array, as the theme needs to make assumptions on it

# English is the default language
defaultContentLanguage = "en"

[languages]
[languages.en]
title = "Hugo Relearn Theme"
weight = 1
languageName = "English"

[languages.pir]
title = "Cap'n Hugo Relearrrn Theme"
weight = 2
languageName = "Arrr! Pirrrates"

Then, for each new page, append the id of the language to the file.

  • Single file my-page.md is split in two files:
    • in English: my-page.md
    • in Piratized English: my-page.pir.md
  • Single file _index.md is split in two files:
    • in English: _index.md
    • in Piratized English: _index.pir.md
Info

Be aware that only translated pages are displayed in menu. It’s not replaced with default language content.

Tip

Use slug frontmatter parameter to translate urls too.

In case each page’s content is written in one single language only, the above configuration will already configure the site’s search functionality correctly.

Warning

Although the theme supports a wide variety of supported languages, the site’s search via the Lunr search library does not. You’ll see error reports in your browsers console log for each unsupported language. Currently unsupported are:

  • Czech
  • Indonesian
  • Polish
  • Swahili

Search with mixed language support

In case your page’s content contains text in multiple languages (e.g. you are writing a Russian documentation for your english API), you can add those languages to your hugo.toml to broaden search.

[params]
  additionalContentLanguage = [ "en" ]

As this is an array, you can add multiple additional languages.

Note

Keep in mind that the language code required here, is the base language code. E.g. if you have additional content in zh-CN, you have to add just zh to this parameter.

Overwrite translation strings

Translations strings are used for common default values used in the theme (Edit button, Search placeholder and so on). Translations are available in English and Piratized English but you may use another language or want to override default values.

To override these values, create a new file in your local i18n folder i18n/<idlanguage>.toml and inspire yourself from the theme themes/hugo-theme-relearn/i18n/en.toml

Disable language switching

Switching the language in the browser is a great feature, but for some reasons you may want to disable it.

Just set disableLanguageSwitchingButton=true in your hugo.toml

[params]
  # When using multilingual website, disable the switch language button.
  disableLanguageSwitchingButton = true

Taxonomy

The Relearn theme supports Hugo’s default taxonomies tag and category out of the box.

Configuration

Just add tags and/or categories to any page. They can be given as a single string or an array of strings.

+++
categories = ["taxonomy", "content"]
tags = "tutorial"
title = "Taxonomy"
+++

Behavior

The tags are displayed at the top of the page in alphabetical order.

The categories are displayed at the bottom of the page in alphabetical order in the default implementation of the theme but can be customized by providing your own content-footer.html partial.

Each item is a link to a taxonomy page displaying all the articles with the given term.

List all the tags

In the hugo.toml file you can add a shortcut to display all the tags and categories

[[menu.shortcuts]]
name = "<i class='fas fa-tags'></i> Tags"
url = "/tags"

[[menu.shortcuts]]
name = "<i class='fas fa-layer-group'></i> Categories"
url = "/categories"

Customization

If you define custom taxonomies and want to display a list of them somewhere on your page (often in the layouts/partials/content-footer.html) you can call a partial that does the job for you:

{{- partial "term-list.html" (dict
  "page" .
  "taxonomy" "categories"
  "icon" "layer-group"
) }}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
page <empty> Mandatory reference to the page.
taxonomy <empty> The plural name of the taxonomy to display as used in your frontmatter.
class <empty> Additional CSS classes set on the outermost generated HTML element.

If set to tags you will get the visuals for displaying the tags taxonomy, otherwise it will be a simple list of links as for the categories taxonomy.
style primary The style scheme used if class is tags.

- by severity: info, note, tip, warning
- by brand color: primary, secondary, accent
- by color: blue, green, grey, orange, red
- by special color: default, transparent, code
color see notes The CSS color value to be used if class is tags. If not set, the chosen color depends on the style. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching color for the severity
- for all other styles: the corresponding color
icon <empty> An optional Font Awesome icon name set to the left of the list.
Chapter 3

Shortcodes

Hugo uses Markdown for its simple content format. However, there are a lot of things that Markdown doesn’t support well. You could use pure HTML to expand possibilities.

But this happens to be a bad idea. Everyone uses Markdown because it’s pure and simple to read even non-rendered. You should avoid HTML to keep it as simple as possible.

To avoid this limitations, Hugo created shortcodes. A shortcode is a simple snippet inside a page.

The Relearn theme provides multiple shortcodes on top of existing ones.

Attachments

List of files attached to a page

Badge

Marker badges to display in your text

Button

Clickable buttons

Children

List the child pages of a page

Expand

Expandable/collapsible sections of text

Highlight

Render code with a syntax highlighter

Icon

Nice icons for your page

Include

Displays content from other files

Math

Beautiful math and chemical formulae

Mermaid

Generate diagrams and flowcharts from text

Notice

Disclaimers to help you structure your page

OpenAPI

UI for your OpenAPI / Swagger specifications

SiteParam

Get value of site params

Tab

Show content in a single tab

Tabs

Show content in tabbed views

Subsections of Shortcodes

Attachments

The attachments shortcode displays a list of files attached to a page with adjustable color, title and icon.

Warning

Since Hugo 0.112.0 this only works for leaf bundles. Branch bundles and simple pages must be switched to leaf bundles or you are currently locked to a Hugo version < 0.112.0.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% attachments sort="asc" /%}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/attachments.html" (dict
  "page" .
  "sort" "asc"
)}}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
style transparent The style scheme used for the box.

- by severity: info, note, tip, warning
- by brand color: primary, secondary, accent
- by color: blue, green, grey, orange, red
- by special color: default, transparent, code
color see notes The CSS color value to be used. If not set, the chosen color depends on the style. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching color for the severity
- for all other styles: the corresponding color
title see notes Arbitrary text for the box title. Depending on the style there may be a default title. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: the matching title for the severity
- for all other styles: Attachments

If you want no title for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
icon see notes Font Awesome icon name set to the left of the title. Depending on the style there may be a default icon. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching icon for the severity
- for all other styles: paperclip

If you want no icon, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty d with spaces)
sort asc Sorting the output in ascending or descending order.
pattern .* A regular expressions, used to filter the attachments by file name. For example:

- to match a file suffix of ‘jpg’, use .*\.jpg (not *.\.jpg)
- to match file names ending in jpg or png, use .*\.(jpg|png)

Setup

Single language

The shortcode lists files found in a specific folder. The name of the folder depends on your page type (either branch bundle, leaf bundle or page).

  1. If your page is a leaf bundle, attachments must be placed in a nested index.files folder, accordingly.

    • content
      • _index.md
      • page
        • _index.md
        • _index.files
          • attachment.pdf
  2. If your page is a branch bundle, attachments must be placed in a nested _index.files folder, accordingly.

    Warning This is only available for Hugo < 0.112.0

    • content
      • _index.md
      • page
        • index.md
        • index.files
          • attachment.pdf
  3. For simple pages, attachments must be placed in a folder named like your page and ending with .files.

    Warning This is only available for Hugo < 0.112.0

    • content
      • _index.md
      • page.files
        • attachment.pdf
      • page.md

Multilingual

Be aware that if you use a multilingual website, you will need to have as many folders as languages and the language code must be part of the folder name.

Eg. for a site in English and Piratish:

  • content
    • index.en.md
    • index.pir.md
    • page
      • index.en.md
      • index.pir.md
      • index.en.files
        • attachment.pdf
      • index.pir.files
        • attachment.pdf

Examples

Custom Title, List of Attachments Ending in pdf or mp4

{{% attachments title="Related **files**" pattern=".*\.(pdf|mp4)" /%}}

Info Styled Box, Descending Sort Order

{{% attachments style="info" sort="desc" /%}}

With User-Defined Color and Font Awesome Brand Icon

{{% attachments color="fuchsia" icon="fab fa-hackerrank" /%}}

Style, Color, Title and Icons

For further examples for style, color, title and icon, see the notice shortcode documentation. The parameter are working the same way for both shortcodes, besides having different defaults.

Badge

The badge shortcode displays little markers in your text with adjustable color, title and icon.

Important Version6.6.6 Captain InfoNew Awesome

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% badge %}}Important{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="primary" title="Version" %}}6.6.6{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="red" icon="angle-double-up" %}}Captain{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="info" %}}New{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge color="fuchsia" icon="fab fa-hackerrank" %}}Awesome{{% /badge %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/badge.html" (dict
    "page"    .
    "content" "Important"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/badge.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "style" "primary"
  "title" "Version"
  "content" "6.6.6"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/badge.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "style" "red"
  "icon"  "angle-double-up"
  "content" "Captain"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/badge.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "style" "info"
  "content" "New"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/badge.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "color" "fuchsia"
  "icon"  "fab fa-hackerrank"
  "content" "Awesome"
)}}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
style default The style scheme used for the badge.

- by severity: info, note, tip, warning
- by brand color: primary, secondary, accent
- by color: blue, green, grey, orange, red
- by special color: default, transparent, code
color see notes The CSS color value to be used. If not set, the chosen color depends on the style. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching color for the severity
- for all other styles: the corresponding color
title see notes Arbitrary text for the badge title. Depending on the style there may be a default title. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: the matching title for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no title for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
icon see notes Font Awesome icon name set to the left of the title. Depending on the style there may be a default icon. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching icon for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no icon for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
<content> <empty> Arbitrary text for the badge.

Examples

Style

By Severity

{{% badge style="info" %}}New{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="note" %}}Change{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="tip" %}}Optional{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="warning" %}}Breaking{{% /badge %}}

InfoNew NoteChange TipOptional WarningBreaking

By Brand Colors

{{% badge style="primary" icon="bullhorn" title="Announcement" %}}Mandatory{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="secondary" icon="bullhorn" title="Announcement" %}}Optional{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="accent" icon="bullhorn" title="Announcement" %}}Special{{% /badge %}}

AnnouncementMandatory AnnouncementOptional AnnouncementSpecial

By Color

{{% badge style="blue" icon="palette" title="Color" %}}Blue{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="green" icon="palette" title="Color" %}}Green{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="grey" icon="palette" title="Color" %}}Grey{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="orange" icon="palette" title="Color" %}}Orange{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="red" icon="palette" title="Color" %}}Red{{% /badge %}}

ColorBlue ColorGreen ColorGrey ColorOrange ColorRed

By Special Color

{{% badge style="default" icon="palette" title="Color" %}}Default{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="transparent" icon="palette" title="Color" %}}Transparent{{% /badge %}}

ColorDefault ColorTransparent

Variants

Without Icon and Title Text

{{% badge %}}6.6.6{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="info" icon=" " title=" " %}}Awesome{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="red" %}}Captain{{% /badge %}}

6.6.6 Awesome Captain

Without Icon

{{% badge title="Version" %}}6.6.6{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="info" icon=" " %}}Awesome{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="red" title="Rank" %}}Captain{{% /badge %}}

Version6.6.6 InfoAwesome RankCaptain

Without Title Text

{{% badge icon="star" %}}6.6.6{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="info" title=" " %}}Awesome{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="red" icon="angle-double-up" %}}Captain{{% /badge %}}

6.6.6 Awesome Captain

All Set

{{% badge icon="star" title="Version" %}}6.6.6{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="info" %}}Awesome{{% /badge %}}
{{% badge style="red" icon="angle-double-up" title="Rank" %}}Captain{{% /badge %}}

Version6.6.6 InfoAwesome RankCaptain

Override for Severity

{{% badge style="info" icon="rocket" title="Feature" %}}Awesome{{% /badge %}}
FeatureAwesome

Other

With User-Defined Color, Font Awesome Brand Icon and Markdown Title and Content

{{% badge color="fuchsia" icon="fab fa-hackerrank" title="**Font**" %}}**Awesome**{{% /badge %}}
FontAwesome

With Icon Content

You can combine the badge with the icon shortcode to create even more stunning visuals.

In this case you need to declare {{< badge >}} instead of {{% badge %}}. Note, that in this case it is not possible to put markdown in the content.

{{< badge style="primary" icon="angle-double-up" >}}{{% icon skull-crossbones %}}{{< /badge >}}  
{{< badge style="primary" icon="angle-double-up" >}}{{% icon skull-crossbones %}} Pirate{{< /badge >}}  
{{< badge style="primary" title="Rank" >}}{{% icon skull-crossbones %}}{{< /badge >}}  
{{< badge style="primary" title="Rank" >}}{{% icon skull-crossbones %}} Pirate{{< /badge >}}  
{{< badge style="primary" icon="angle-double-up" title="Rank" >}}{{% icon skull-crossbones %}}{{< /badge >}}  
{{< badge style="primary" icon="angle-double-up" title="Rank" >}}{{% icon skull-crossbones %}} Pirate{{< /badge >}}


Pirate
Rank
Rank Pirate
Rank
Rank Pirate

Inside of Text

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus. {{% badge style="blue" icon="rocket" %}}Awesome{{% /badge %}} Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus. Awesome Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.

Button

The button shortcode displays a clickable button with adjustable color, title and icon.

Get Hugo Get Hugo

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="warning" icon="dragon" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/button.html" (dict
    "page" .
    "href" "https://gohugo.io/"
    "content" "Get Hugo"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/button.html" (dict
  "page" .
  "href" "https://gohugo.io/"
  "style" "warning"
  "icon" "dragon"
  "content" "Get Hugo"
)}}

Once the button is clicked, it opens another browser tab for the given URL.

Parameter

Name Default Notes
href <empty> Either the destination URL for the button or JavaScript code to be executed on click. If this parameter is not set, the button will do nothing but is still displayed as clickable.

- if starting with javascript: all following text will be executed in your browser
- every other string will be interpreted as URL
style transparent The style scheme used for the button.

- by severity: info, note, tip, warning
- by brand color: primary, secondary, accent
- by color: blue, green, grey, orange, red
- by special color: default, transparent, code
color see notes The CSS color value to be used. If not set, the chosen color depends on the style. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching color for the severity
- for all other styles: the corresponding color
icon see notes Font Awesome icon name set to the left of the title. Depending on the style there may be a default icon. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching icon for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no icon for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
iconposition left Places the icon to the left or right of the title.
target see notes The destination frame/window if href is an URL. Otherwise the parameter is not used. This behaves similar to normal links. If the parameter is not given it defaults to:

- the setting of externalLinkTarget or _blank if not set, for any address starting with http:// or https://
- no specific value for all other links
type see notes The button type if href is JavaScript. Otherwise the parameter is not used. If the parameter is not given it defaults to button
<content> see notes Arbitrary text for the button title. Depending on the style there may be a default title. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: the matching title for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no title for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)

Examples

Style

By Severity

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="info" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="note" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="tip" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="warning" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}

Get Hugo Get Hugo Get Hugo Get Hugo

By Brand Colors

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="primary" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="secondary" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="accent" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}

Get Hugo Get Hugo Get Hugo

By Color

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="blue" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="green" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="grey" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="orange" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="red" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}

Get Hugo Get Hugo Get Hugo Get Hugo Get Hugo

By Special Color

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="default" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="transparent" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}

Get Hugo Get Hugo

Icon

Empty

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" icon=" " %}}{{% /button %}}

Only

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" icon="download" %}}{{% /button %}}

To the Left

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" icon="download" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
Get Hugo

To the Right

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" icon="download" iconposition="right" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
Get Hugo

Override for Severity

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" icon="dragon" style="warning" %}}Get Hugo{{% /button %}}
Get Hugo

Target

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" target="_self" %}}Get Hugo in same window{{% /button %}}
{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" %}}Get Hugo in new Window/Frame (default){{% /button %}}

Get Hugo in same Window/Frame Get Hugo in new Window/Frame (default)

Other

With User-Defined Color, Font Awesome Brand Icon and Markdown Title

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" color="fuchsia" icon="fab fa-hackerrank" %}}Get **Hugo**{{% /button %}}
Get Hugo

Severity Style with All Defaults

{{% button href="https://gohugo.io/" style="tip" %}}{{% /button %}}
Tip

Button to Internal Page

{{% button href="/index.html" %}}Home{{% /button %}}
Home

Button with JavaScript Action

If your JavaScript action does not change the focus afterwards, make sure to call this.blur() in the end to unselect the button.

{{% button style="primary" icon="bullhorn" href="javascript:alert('Hello world!');this.blur();" %}}Shout it out{{% /button %}}

Button within a form Element

To use native HTML elements in your Markdown, add this in your hugo.toml

[markup.goldmark.renderer]
    unsafe = true
<form action="../../search.html" method="get">
  <input name="search-by-detail" class="search-by" type="search">
  {{% button type="submit" style="secondary" icon="search" %}}Search{{% /button %}}
</form>

Children

The children shortcode lists the child pages of the current page and its descendants.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% children sort="weight" %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/children.html" (dict
  "page" .
  "sort" "weight"
)}}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
containerstyle ul Choose the style used to group all children. It could be any HTML tag name.
style li Choose the style used to display each descendant. It could be any HTML tag name.
showhidden false When true, child pages hidden from the menu will be displayed as well.
description false When true shows a short text under each page in the list. When no description or summary exists for the page, the first 70 words of the content is taken - read more info about summaries on gohugo.io.
depth 1 The depth of descendants to display. For example, if the value is 2, the shortcode will display two levels of child pages. To get all descendants, set this value to a high number eg. 999.
sort auto The sort criteria of the displayed list.

- auto defaults to ordersectionsby of the pages frontmatter
    or to ordersectionsby of the site configuration
    or to weight
- weight
- title
- linktitle
- modifieddate
- expirydate
- publishdate
- date
- length
- default adhering to Hugo’s default sort criteria

Examples

All Default

{{% children  %}}

With Description

{{% children description="true" %}}
  • page X

    This is a plain page test, and the beginning of a YAML multiline description...

  • page 1

    This is a demo child page

  • page 2

    This is a demo child page with no description. So its content is used as description.

  • page 3

    This is a demo child page

Infinite Depth and Hidden Pages

{{% children depth="999" showhidden="true" %}}

Heading Styles for Container and Elements

{{% children containerstyle="div" style="h2" depth="3" description="true" %}}

page X

This is a plain page test, and the beginning of a YAML multiline description...

page 1

This is a demo child page

page 1-1

This is a demo child page

page 1-1-2 (headless)

This is a demo child page

page 1-1-3

This is a demo child page

page 2

This is a demo child page with no description. So its content is used as description.

page 3

This is a demo child page

page 3-1

This is a plain page test nested in a parent

Divs for Group and Element Styles

{{% children containerstyle="div" style="div" depth="3" %}}

Subsections of Children

page X

This is a plain demo child page.

Subsections of page 1

Subsections of page 1-1

Subsections of page 1-1-2 (headless)

page 2

This is a demo child page with no description.

So its content is used as description.

Subsections of page 3

Expand

The expand shortcode displays an expandable/collapsible section of text.

Thank you!

That’s some text with a footnote1

That’s some more text with a footnote.2


  1. And that’s the footnote. ↩︎

  2. Anything of interest goes here.

    Blue light glows blue. ↩︎

Note

This only works in modern browsers flawlessly. While Internet Explorer 11 has issues in displaying it, the functionality still works.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to use positional as well or also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% expand title="Expand me..." %}}Thank you!{{% /expand %}}
{{% expand "Expand me..." %}}Thank you!{{% /expand %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/expand.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "title" "Expand me..."
  "content" "Thank you!"
)}}

Parameter

Name Position Default Notes
title 1 "Expand me..." Arbitrary text to appear next to the expand/collapse icon.
open 2 false When true the content text will be initially shown as expanded.
<content> <empty> Arbitrary text to be displayed on expand.

Examples

All Defaults

{{% expand %}}Yes, you did it!{{% /expand %}}

Yes, you did it!

Initially Expanded

{{% expand title="Expand me..." open="true" %}}No need to press you!{{% /expand %}}

No need to press you!

Arbitrary Text

{{% expand title="Show me almost **endless** possibilities" %}}
You can add standard markdown syntax:

- multiple paragraphs
- bullet point lists
- _emphasized_, **bold** and even **_bold emphasized_** text
- [links](https://example.com)
- etc.

```plaintext
...and even source code
```

> the possibilities are endless (almost - including other shortcodes may or may not work)
{{% /expand %}}

You can add standard markdown syntax:

  • multiple paragraphs
  • bullet point lists
  • emphasized, bold and even bold emphasized text
  • links
  • etc.
...and even source code

the possibilities are endless (almost - including other shortcodes may or may not work)

Highlight

The highlight shortcode renders your code with a syntax highlighter.

1print("Hello World!")

Usage

This shortcode is fully compatible with Hugo’s highlight shortcode but offers some extensions.

It is called interchangeably in the same way as Hugo’s own shortcode providing positional parameter or by simply using codefences.

You are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials. In this case it resembles Hugo’s highlight function syntax if you call this shortcode as a partial using compatiblity syntax.

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter it is recommended to use codefences instead. This is because more and more other software supports codefences (eg. GitHub) and so your markdown becomes more portable.

```py { lineNos="true" wrap="true" title="python" }
print("Hello World!")
```
{{< highlight lineNos="true" type="py" wrap="true" title="python" >}}
print("Hello World!")
{{< /highlight >}}
{{< highlight py "lineNos=true,wrap=true,title=python" >}}
print("Hello World!")
{{< /highlight >}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/highlight.html" (dict
  "page"    .
  "content" "print(\"Hello World!\")"
  "lineNos" "true"
  "type"    "py"
  "wrap"    "true"
  "title"   "python"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/highlight.html" (dict
  "page"    .
  "content" "print(\"Hello World!\")"
  "options" "lineNos=true,wrap=true,title=python"
  "type"    "py"
)}}

Parameter

Name Position Default Notes
type 1 <empty> The language of the code to highlight. Choose from one of the supported languages. Case-insensitive.
title <empty> Extension. Arbitrary title for code. This displays the code like a single tab if hl_inline=false (which is Hugos default).
wrap see notes Extension. When true the content may wrap on long lines otherwise it will be scrollable.

The default value can be set in your hugo.toml and overwritten via frontmatter. See below.
options 2 <empty> An optional, comma-separated list of zero or more Hugo supported options as well as extension parameter from this table.
<option> <empty> Any of Hugo’s supported options.
<content> <empty> Your code to highlight.

Configuration

Default values for Hugo’s supported options can be set via goldmark settings in your hugo.toml

Default values for extension options can be set via params settings in your hugo.toml or be overwritten by frontmatter for each individual page.

Global Configuration File

You can configure the color style used for code blocks in your color variants stylesheet file.

[markup]
  [markup.highlight]
    # line numbers in a table layout will shift if code is wrapping, so better
    # use inline; besides that visually both layouts have the same look and behavior
    lineNumbersInTable = false

    # the shipped variants come with their own modified chroma syntax highlightning
    # stylesheets which are linked in your generated HTML pages; you can use Hugo to generate
    # own stylesheets to your liking and use them in your variant;
    # if you want to use Hugo's internal styles instead of the shipped stylesheets:
    # - remove `noClasses` or set `noClasses = true`
    # - set `style` to a predefined style name
    # note: with using the internal styles, the `--CODE-theme` setting in your variant
    # stylesheet will be ignored and the internal style is used for all variants and
    # even print
    noClasses = false
    # style = "tango"

Optional Settings

[params]
  highlightWrap = true

Page’s Frontmatter

+++
highlightWrap = true
+++

Examples

Line Numbers with Starting Offset

As mentioned above, line numbers in a table layout will shift if code is wrapping, so better use inline. To make things easier for you, set lineNumbersInTable = false in your hugo.toml and add lineNos = true when calling the shortcode instead of the specific values table or inline.

{{< highlight lineNos="true" lineNoStart="666" type="py" >}}
# the hardest part is to start writing code; here's a kickstart; just copy and paste this; it's free; the next lines will cost you serious credits
print("Hello")
print(" ")
print("World")
print("!")
{{< /highlight >}}
666# the hardest part is to start writing code; here's a kickstart; just copy and paste this; it's free; the next lines will cost you serious credits
667print("Hello")
668print(" ")
669print("World")
670print("!")

Codefence with Title

```py { title="python" }
# a bit shorter
print("Hello World!")
```
# a bit shorter
print("Hello World!")

With Wrap

{{< highlight type="py" wrap="true" hl_lines="2" >}}
# Quicksort Python One-liner
lambda L: [] if L==[] else qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x< L[0]]) + L[0:1] + qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x>=L[0]])
# Some more stuff
{{< /highlight >}}
# Quicksort Python One-liner
lambda L: [] if L==[] else qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x< L[0]]) + L[0:1] + qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x>=L[0]])
# Some more stuff

Without Wrap

{{< highlight type="py" wrap="false" hl_lines="2" >}}
# Quicksort Python One-liner
lambda L: [] if L==[] else qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x< L[0]]) + L[0:1] + qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x>=L[0]])
# Some more stuff
{{< /highlight >}}
# Quicksort Python One-liner
lambda L: [] if L==[] else qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x< L[0]]) + L[0:1] + qsort([x for x in L[1:] if x>=L[0]])
# Some more stuff

Icon

The icon shortcode displays icons using the Font Awesome library.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with positional parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% icon icon="exclamation-triangle" %}}
{{% icon icon="angle-double-up" %}}
{{% icon icon="skull-crossbones" %}}
{{% icon exclamation-triangle %}}
{{% icon angle-double-up %}}
{{% icon skull-crossbones %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/icon.html" (dict
    "page" .
    "icon" "exclamation-triangle"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/icon.html" (dict
    "page" .
    "icon" "angle-double-up"
)}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/icon.html" (dict
    "page" .
    "icon" "skull-crossbones"
)}}

Parameter

Name Position Default Notes
icon 1 <empty> Font Awesome icon name to be displayed. It will be displayed in the text color of its according context.

Finding an icon

Browse through the available icons in the Font Awesome Gallery. Notice that the free filter is enabled, as only the free icons are available by default.

Once on the Font Awesome page for a specific icon, for example the page for the heart, copy the icon name and paste into the Markdown content.

Customising Icons

Font Awesome provides many ways to modify the icon

  • Change color (by default the icon will inherit the parent color)
  • Increase or decrease size
  • Rotate
  • Combine with other icons

Check the full documentation on web fonts with CSS for more.

Examples

Standard Usage

Built with {{% icon heart %}} by Relearn and Hugo

Built with by Relearn and Hugo

Advanced HTML Usage

While the shortcode simplifies using standard icons, the icon customization and other advanced features of the Font Awesome library require you to use HTML directly. Paste the <i> HTML into markup, and Font Awesome will load the relevant icon.

Built with <i class="fas fa-heart"></i> by Relearn and Hugo

Built with by Relearn and Hugo

To use these native HTML elements in your Markdown, add this in your hugo.toml:

[markup.goldmark.renderer]
    unsafe = true

Include

The include shortcode includes other files from your project inside of the current page.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to use positional aswell or also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% include file="shortcodes/INCLUDE_ME.md" %}}
{{% include "shortcodes/INCLUDE_ME.md" %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/include .html" (dict
  "page" .
  "file" "shortcodes/INCLUDE_ME.md"
)}}

The included files can even contain Markdown and will be taken into account when generating the table of contents.

Parameter

Name Position Default Notes
file 1 <empty> The path to the file to be included. Path resolution adheres to Hugo’s build-in readFile function
hidefirstheading 2 false When true and the included file contains headings, the first heading will be hidden. This comes in handy, eg. if you include otherwise standalone Markdown files.

Examples

Arbitrary Content

{{% include "shortcodes/INCLUDE_ME.md" %}}

You can add standard markdown syntax:

  • multiple paragraphs
  • bullet point lists
  • emphasized, bold and even bold emphasized text
  • links
  • etc.1
...and even source code

the possibilities are endless (almost - including other shortcodes may or may not work) (almost - including other shortcodes may or may not work)


  1. Et Cetera (English: /ɛtˈsɛtərə/), abbreviated to etc., etc, et cet., is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean “and other similar things”, or “and so forth” ↩︎

Math

The math shortcode generates beautiful formatted math and chemical formulae using the MathJax library.

$$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$
Note

This only works in modern browsers.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter it is recommended to use codefences instead. This is because more and more other software supports Math codefences (eg. GitHub) and so your markdown becomes more portable.

You are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

```math { align="center" }
$$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$
```
{{< math align="center" >}}
$$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$
{{< /math >}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/math.html" (dict
  "page"    .
  "content" "$$left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$"
  "align"   "center"
)}}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
align center Allowed values are left, center or right.
<content> <empty> Your formuale.

Configuration

MathJax is configured with default settings. You can customize MathJax’s default settings for all of your files thru a JSON object in your hugo.toml or override these settings per page thru your pages frontmatter.

The JSON object of your hugo.toml / frontmatter is forwarded into MathJax’s configuration object.

See MathJax documentation for all allowed settings.

Global Configuration File

[params]
  mathJaxInitialize = "{ \"chtml\": { \"displayAlign\": \"left\" } }"

Page’s Frontmatter

+++
mathJaxInitialize = "{ \"chtml\": { \"displayAlign\": \"left\" } }"
+++

Examples

Inline Math

Inline math is generated if you use a single `$` as a delimiter around your formulae: {{< math >}}$\sqrt{3}${{< /math >}}

Inline math is generated if you use a single $ as a delimiter around your formulae: $\sqrt{3}$

Blocklevel Math with Right Alignment

If you delimit your formulae by two consecutive `$$` it generates a new block.

{{< math align="right" >}}
$$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$
{{< /math >}}

If you delimit your formulae by two consecutive $$ it generates a new block.

$$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$

Codefence

You can also use codefences.

```math
$$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$
```
$$\left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k b_k \right)^2 \leq \left( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^2 \right) \left( \sum_{k=1}^n b_k^2 \right)$$

Chemical Formulae

{{< math >}}
$$\ce{Hg^2+ ->[I-] HgI2 ->[I-] [Hg^{II}I4]^2-}$$
{{< /math >}}
$$\ce{Hg^2+ ->[I-] HgI2 ->[I-] [Hg^{II}I4]^2-}$$

Mermaid

The mermaid shortcode generates diagrams and flowcharts from text, in a similar manner as Markdown using the Mermaid library.

graph LR;
    If --> Then
    Then --> Else
Note

This only works in modern browsers.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter it is recommended to use codefences instead. This is because more and more other software supports Mermaid codefences (eg. GitHub) and so your markdown becomes more portable.

You are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

```mermaid { align="center" zoom="true" }
graph LR;
    If --> Then
    Then --> Else
```
{{< mermaid align="center" zoom="true" >}}
graph LR;
    If --> Then
    Then --> Else
{{< /mermaid >}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/mermaid.html" (dict
  "page"    .
  "content" "graph LR;\nIf --> Then\nThen --> Else"
  "align"   "center"
  "zoom"    "true"
)}}

The generated graphs can be be panned by dragging them and zoomed by using the mousewheel. On mobile devices you can use finger gestures.

Parameter

Name Default Notes
align center Allowed values are left, center or right.
zoom see notes Whether the graph is pan- and zoomable.

If not set the value is determined by the mermaidZoom setting of the site or the pages frontmatter or false if not set at all.

- false: no pan or zoom
- true: pan and zoom active
<content> <empty> Your Mermaid graph.

Configuration

Mermaid is configured with default settings. You can customize Mermaid’s default settings for all of your files thru a JSON object in your hugo.toml, override these settings per page thru your pages frontmatter or override these setting per diagramm thru diagram directives.

The JSON object of your hugo.toml / frontmatter is forwarded into Mermaid’s mermaid.initialize() function.

See Mermaid documentation for all allowed settings.

The theme setting can also be set by your used color variant. This will be the sitewide default and can - again - be overridden by your settings in hugo.toml, frontmatter or diagram directives.

Global Configuration File

[params]
  mermaidInitialize = "{ \"theme\": \"dark\" }"
  mermaidZoom = true

Page’s Frontmatter

+++
mermaidInitialize = "{ \"theme\": \"dark\" }"
mermaidZoom = true
+++

Examples

Flowchart with YAML-Title

{{< mermaid >}}
---
title: Example Diagram
---
graph LR;
    A[Hard edge] -->|Link text| B(Round edge)
    B --> C{<strong>Decision</strong>}
    C -->|One| D[Result one]
    C -->|Two| E[Result two]
{{< /mermaid >}}
---
title: Example Diagram
---
graph LR;
    A[Hard edge] -->|Link text| B(Round edge)
    B --> C{<strong>Decision</strong>}
    C -->|One| D[Result one]
    C -->|Two| E[Result two]

Sequence Diagram with Configuration Directive

{{< mermaid >}}
%%{init:{"fontFamily":"monospace", "sequence":{"showSequenceNumbers":true}}}%%
sequenceDiagram
    Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?
    loop Healthcheck
        John->>John: Fight against hypochondria
    end
    Note right of John: Rational thoughts!
    John-->>Alice: Great!
    John->>Bob: How about you?
    Bob-->>John: Jolly good!
{{< /mermaid >}}
%%{init:{"fontFamily":"monospace", "sequence":{"showSequenceNumbers":true}}}%%
sequenceDiagram
    Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?
    loop Healthcheck
        John->>John: Fight against hypochondria
    end
    Note right of John: Rational thoughts!
    John-->>Alice: Great!
    John->>Bob: How about you?
    Bob-->>John: Jolly good!

Class Diagram with Codefence Syntax

```mermaid
classDiagram
    Animal <|-- Duck
    Animal <|-- Fish
    Animal <|-- Zebra
    Animal : +int age
    Animal : +String gender
    Animal: +isMammal()
    Animal: +mate()
    class Duck{
      +String beakColor
      +swim()
      +quack()
    }
    class Fish{
      -int sizeInFeet
      -canEat()
    }
    class Zebra{
      +bool is_wild
      +run()
    }
```
classDiagram
    Animal <|-- Duck
    Animal <|-- Fish
    Animal <|-- Zebra
    Animal : +int age
    Animal : +String gender
    Animal: +isMammal()
    Animal: +mate()
    class Duck{
      +String beakColor
      +swim()
      +quack()
    }
    class Fish{
      -int sizeInFeet
      -canEat()
    }
    class Zebra{
      +bool is_wild
      +run()
    }

State Diagram Aligned to the Right

{{< mermaid align="right" >}}
stateDiagram-v2
    open: Open Door
    closed: Closed Door
    locked: Locked Door
    open   --> closed: Close
    closed --> locked: Lock
    locked --> closed: Unlock
    closed --> open: Open
{{< /mermaid >}}
stateDiagram-v2
  open: Open Door
  closed: Closed Door
  locked: Locked Door
  open   --> closed: Close
  closed --> locked: Lock
  locked --> closed: Unlock
  closed --> open: Open

Entity Relationship Model with Non-Default Mermaid Theme

{{< mermaid >}}
%%{init:{"theme":"forest"}}%%
erDiagram
    CUSTOMER }|..|{ DELIVERY-ADDRESS : has
    CUSTOMER ||--o{ ORDER : places
    CUSTOMER ||--o{ INVOICE : "liable for"
    DELIVERY-ADDRESS ||--o{ ORDER : receives
    INVOICE ||--|{ ORDER : covers
    ORDER ||--|{ ORDER-ITEM : includes
    PRODUCT-CATEGORY ||--|{ PRODUCT : contains
    PRODUCT ||--o{ ORDER-ITEM : "ordered in"
{{< /mermaid >}}
%%{init:{"theme":"forest"}}%%
erDiagram
    CUSTOMER }|..|{ DELIVERY-ADDRESS : has
    CUSTOMER ||--o{ ORDER : places
    CUSTOMER ||--o{ INVOICE : "liable for"
    DELIVERY-ADDRESS ||--o{ ORDER : receives
    INVOICE ||--|{ ORDER : covers
    ORDER ||--|{ ORDER-ITEM : includes
    PRODUCT-CATEGORY ||--|{ PRODUCT : contains
    PRODUCT ||--o{ ORDER-ITEM : "ordered in"

User Journey

{{< mermaid >}}
journey
    title My working day
    section Go to work
      Make tea: 5: Me
      Go upstairs: 3: Me
      Do work: 1: Me, Cat
    section Go home
      Go downstairs: 5: Me
      Sit down: 3: Me
{{< /mermaid >}}
journey
    title My working day
    section Go to work
      Make tea: 5: Me
      Go upstairs: 3: Me
      Do work: 1: Me, Cat
    section Go home
      Go downstairs: 5: Me
      Sit down: 3: Me

GANTT Chart

{{< mermaid >}}
gantt
        dateFormat  YYYY-MM-DD
        title Adding GANTT diagram functionality to Mermaid
        section A section
        Completed task            :done,    des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08
        Active task               :active,  des2, 2014-01-09, 3d
        Future task               :         des3, after des2, 5d
        Future task2              :         des4, after des3, 5d
        section Critical tasks
        Completed task in the critical line :crit, done, 2014-01-06,24h
        Implement parser and jison          :crit, done, after des1, 2d
        Create tests for parser             :crit, active, 3d
        Future task in critical line        :crit, 5d
        Create tests for renderer           :2d
        Add to Mermaid                      :1d
{{< /mermaid >}}
gantt
        dateFormat  YYYY-MM-DD
        title Adding GANTT diagram functionality to Mermaid
        section A section
        Completed task            :done,    des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08
        Active task               :active,  des2, 2014-01-09, 3d
        Future task               :         des3, after des2, 5d
        Future task2              :         des4, after des3, 5d
        section Critical tasks
        Completed task in the critical line :crit, done, 2014-01-06,24h
        Implement parser and jison          :crit, done, after des1, 2d
        Create tests for parser             :crit, active, 3d
        Future task in critical line        :crit, 5d
        Create tests for renderer           :2d
        Add to Mermaid                      :1d

Pie Chart without Zoom

{{< mermaid zoom="false" >}}
pie title Pets adopted by volunteers
    "Dogs" : 386
    "Cats" : 85
    "Rats" : 15
{{< /mermaid >}}
pie title Pets adopted by volunteers
    "Dogs" : 386
    "Cats" : 85
    "Rats" : 15

Quadrant Chart

{{< mermaid >}}
pie title Pets adopted by volunteers
    title Reach and engagement of campaigns
    x-axis Low Reach --> High Reach
    y-axis Low Engagement --> High Engagement
    quadrant-1 We should expand
    quadrant-2 Need to promote
    quadrant-3 Re-evaluate
    quadrant-4 May be improved
    Campaign A: [0.3, 0.6]
    Campaign B: [0.45, 0.23]
    Campaign C: [0.57, 0.69]
    Campaign D: [0.78, 0.34]
    Campaign E: [0.40, 0.34]
    Campaign F: [0.35, 0.78]
{{< /mermaid >}}
quadrantChart
    title Reach and engagement of campaigns
    x-axis Low Reach --> High Reach
    y-axis Low Engagement --> High Engagement
    quadrant-1 We should expand
    quadrant-2 Need to promote
    quadrant-3 Re-evaluate
    quadrant-4 May be improved
    Campaign A: [0.3, 0.6]
    Campaign B: [0.45, 0.23]
    Campaign C: [0.57, 0.69]
    Campaign D: [0.78, 0.34]
    Campaign E: [0.40, 0.34]
    Campaign F: [0.35, 0.78]

Requirement Diagram

{{< mermaid >}}
    requirementDiagram

    requirement test_req {
    id: 1
    text: the test text.
    risk: high
    verifymethod: test
    }

    element test_entity {
    type: simulation
    }

    test_entity - satisfies -> test_req
{{< /mermaid >}}
    requirementDiagram

    requirement test_req {
    id: 1
    text: the test text.
    risk: high
    verifymethod: test
    }

    element test_entity {
    type: simulation
    }

    test_entity - satisfies -> test_req

Git Graph

{{< mermaid >}}
gitGraph
    commit
    commit
    branch develop
    checkout develop
    commit
    commit
    checkout main
    merge develop
    commit
    commit
{{< /mermaid >}}
gitGraph
    commit
    commit
    branch develop
    checkout develop
    commit
    commit
    checkout main
    merge develop
    commit
    commit

C4 Diagrams

{{< mermaid >}}
C4Context
    title System Context diagram for Internet Banking System
    Enterprise_Boundary(b0, "BankBoundary0") {
    Person(customerA, "Banking Customer A", "A customer of the bank, with personal bank accounts.")
    Person(customerB, "Banking Customer B")
    Person_Ext(customerC, "Banking Customer C", "desc")

    Person(customerD, "Banking Customer D", "A customer of the bank, <br/> with personal bank accounts.")

    System(SystemAA, "Internet Banking System", "Allows customers to view information about their bank accounts, and make payments.")

    Enterprise_Boundary(b1, "BankBoundary") {

        SystemDb_Ext(SystemE, "Mainframe Banking System", "Stores all of the core banking information about customers, accounts, transactions, etc.")

        System_Boundary(b2, "BankBoundary2") {
        System(SystemA, "Banking System A")
        System(SystemB, "Banking System B", "A system of the bank, with personal bank accounts. next line.")
        }

        System_Ext(SystemC, "E-mail system", "The internal Microsoft Exchange e-mail system.")
        SystemDb(SystemD, "Banking System D Database", "A system of the bank, with personal bank accounts.")

        Boundary(b3, "BankBoundary3", "boundary") {
        SystemQueue(SystemF, "Banking System F Queue", "A system of the bank.")
        SystemQueue_Ext(SystemG, "Banking System G Queue", "A system of the bank, with personal bank accounts.")
        }
    }
    }

    BiRel(customerA, SystemAA, "Uses")
    BiRel(SystemAA, SystemE, "Uses")
    Rel(SystemAA, SystemC, "Sends e-mails", "SMTP")
    Rel(SystemC, customerA, "Sends e-mails to")

    UpdateElementStyle(customerA, $fontColor="red", $bgColor="grey", $borderColor="red")
    UpdateRelStyle(customerA, SystemAA, $textColor="blue", $lineColor="blue", $offsetX="5")
    UpdateRelStyle(SystemAA, SystemE, $textColor="blue", $lineColor="blue", $offsetY="-10")
    UpdateRelStyle(SystemAA, SystemC, $textColor="blue", $lineColor="blue", $offsetY="-40", $offsetX="-50")
    UpdateRelStyle(SystemC, customerA, $textColor="red", $lineColor="red", $offsetX="-50", $offsetY="20")

    UpdateLayoutConfig($c4ShapeInRow="3", $c4BoundaryInRow="1")
{{< /mermaid >}}
C4Context
    title System Context diagram for Internet Banking System
    Enterprise_Boundary(b0, "BankBoundary0") {
    Person(customerA, "Banking Customer A", "A customer of the bank, with personal bank accounts.")
    Person(customerB, "Banking Customer B")
    Person_Ext(customerC, "Banking Customer C", "desc")

    Person(customerD, "Banking Customer D", "A customer of the bank, <br/> with personal bank accounts.")

    System(SystemAA, "Internet Banking System", "Allows customers to view information about their bank accounts, and make payments.")

    Enterprise_Boundary(b1, "BankBoundary") {

        SystemDb_Ext(SystemE, "Mainframe Banking System", "Stores all of the core banking information about customers, accounts, transactions, etc.")

        System_Boundary(b2, "BankBoundary2") {
        System(SystemA, "Banking System A")
        System(SystemB, "Banking System B", "A system of the bank, with personal bank accounts. next line.")
        }

        System_Ext(SystemC, "E-mail system", "The internal Microsoft Exchange e-mail system.")
        SystemDb(SystemD, "Banking System D Database", "A system of the bank, with personal bank accounts.")

        Boundary(b3, "BankBoundary3", "boundary") {
        SystemQueue(SystemF, "Banking System F Queue", "A system of the bank.")
        SystemQueue_Ext(SystemG, "Banking System G Queue", "A system of the bank, with personal bank accounts.")
        }
    }
    }

    BiRel(customerA, SystemAA, "Uses")
    BiRel(SystemAA, SystemE, "Uses")
    Rel(SystemAA, SystemC, "Sends e-mails", "SMTP")
    Rel(SystemC, customerA, "Sends e-mails to")

    UpdateElementStyle(customerA, $fontColor="red", $bgColor="grey", $borderColor="red")
    UpdateRelStyle(customerA, SystemAA, $textColor="blue", $lineColor="blue", $offsetX="5")
    UpdateRelStyle(SystemAA, SystemE, $textColor="blue", $lineColor="blue", $offsetY="-10")
    UpdateRelStyle(SystemAA, SystemC, $textColor="blue", $lineColor="blue", $offsetY="-40", $offsetX="-50")
    UpdateRelStyle(SystemC, customerA, $textColor="red", $lineColor="red", $offsetX="-50", $offsetY="20")

    UpdateLayoutConfig($c4ShapeInRow="3", $c4BoundaryInRow="1")

Mindmaps

{{< mermaid >}}
mindmap
  root((mindmap))
    Origins
      Long history
      ::icon(fa fa-book)
      Popularisation
        British popular psychology author Tony Buzan
    Research
      On effectiveness<br/>and features
      On Automatic creation
        Uses
            Creative techniques
            Strategic planning
            Argument mapping
    Tools
      Pen and paper
      Mermaid
{{< /mermaid >}}
mindmap
  root((mindmap))
    Origins
      Long history
      ::icon(fa fa-book)
      Popularisation
        British popular psychology author Tony Buzan
    Research
      On effectiveness<br/>and features
      On Automatic creation
        Uses
            Creative techniques
            Strategic planning
            Argument mapping
    Tools
      Pen and paper
      Mermaid

Timeline

{{< mermaid >}}
timeline
    title History of Social Media Platform
    2002 : LinkedIn
    2004 : Facebook
         : Google
    2005 : Youtube
    2006 : Twitter
{{< /mermaid >}}
timeline
    title History of Social Media Platform
    2002 : LinkedIn
    2004 : Facebook
         : Google
    2005 : Youtube
    2006 : Twitter

Sankey

{{< mermaid >}}
sankey-beta

%% source,target,value
Electricity grid,Over generation / exports,104.453
Electricity grid,Heating and cooling - homes,113.726
Electricity grid,H2 conversion,27.14
{{< /mermaid >}}
sankey-beta

%% source,target,value
Electricity grid,Over generation / exports,104.453
Electricity grid,Heating and cooling - homes,113.726
Electricity grid,H2 conversion,27.14

XYChart

{{< mermaid >}}
xychart-beta
    title "Sales Revenue"
    x-axis [jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov, dec]
    y-axis "Revenue (in $)" 4000 --> 11000
    bar [5000, 6000, 7500, 8200, 9500, 10500, 11000, 10200, 9200, 8500, 7000, 6000]
    line [5000, 6000, 7500, 8200, 9500, 10500, 11000, 10200, 9200, 8500, 7000, 6000]
{{< /mermaid >}}
xychart-beta
    title "Sales Revenue"
    x-axis [jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov, dec]
    y-axis "Revenue (in $)" 4000 --> 11000
    bar [5000, 6000, 7500, 8200, 9500, 10500, 11000, 10200, 9200, 8500, 7000, 6000]
    line [5000, 6000, 7500, 8200, 9500, 10500, 11000, 10200, 9200, 8500, 7000, 6000]

Notice

The notice shortcode shows various types of disclaimers with adjustable color, title and icon to help you structure your page.

There may be pirates

It is all about the boxes.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to use positional as well or also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% notice style="primary" title="There may be pirates" icon="skull-crossbones" %}}
It is all about the boxes.
{{% /notice %}}
{{% notice primary "There may be pirates" "skull-crossbones" %}}
It is all about the boxes.
{{% /notice %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/notice.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "style" "primary"
  "title" "There may be pirates"
  "icon" "skull-crossbones"
  "content" "It is all about the boxes."
)}}

Parameter

Name Position Default Notes
style 1 default The style scheme used for the box.

- by severity: info, note, tip, warning
- by brand color: primary, secondary, accent
- by color: blue, green, grey, orange, red
- by special color: default, transparent, code
color see notes The CSS color value to be used. If not set, the chosen color depends on the style. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching color for the severity
- for all other styles: the corresponding color
title 2 see notes Arbitrary text for the box title. Depending on the style there may be a default title. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: the matching title for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no title for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
icon 3 see notes Font Awesome icon name set to the left of the title. Depending on the style there may be a default icon. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching icon for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no icon for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
<content> <empty> Arbitrary text to be displayed in box.

Examples

By Severity

Info with markup

{{% notice style="info" %}}
An **information** disclaimer

You can add standard markdown syntax:

- multiple paragraphs
- bullet point lists
- _emphasized_, **bold** and even ***bold emphasized*** text
- [links](https://example.com)
- etc.

```plaintext
...and even source code
```

> the possibilities are endless (almost - including other shortcodes may or may not work)
{{% /notice %}}
Info

An information disclaimer

You can add standard markdown syntax:

  • multiple paragraphs
  • bullet point lists
  • emphasized, bold and even bold emphasized text
  • links
  • etc.
...and even source code

the possibilities are endless (almost - including other shortcodes may or may not work)

Note

{{% notice style="note" %}}
A **notice** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}
Note

A notice disclaimer

Tip

{{% notice style="tip" %}}
A **tip** disclaimer
Tip

A tip disclaimer

Warning

{{% notice style="warning" %}}
A **warning** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}
Warning

A warning disclaimer

Warning with Non-Default Title and Icon

{{% notice style="warning" title="Here are dragons" icon="dragon" %}}
A **warning** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}
Here are dragons

A warning disclaimer

Warning without a Title and Icon

{{% notice style="warning" title=" " icon=" " %}}
A **warning** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}

A warning disclaimer

By Brand Colors

Primary with Title only

{{% notice style="primary" title="Primary" %}}
A **primary** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}
Primary

A primary disclaimer

Secondary with Icon only

{{% notice style="secondary" icon="stopwatch" %}}
A **secondary** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}

A secondary disclaimer

Accent

{{% notice style="accent" %}}
An **accent** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}

An accent disclaimer

By Color

Blue without a Title and Icon

{{% notice style="blue" %}}
A **blue** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}

A blue disclaimer

Green with Title only

{{% notice style="green" title="Green" %}}
A **green** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}
Green

A green disclaimer

Grey with Icon only

{{% notice style="grey" icon="bug" %}}
A **grey** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}

A grey disclaimer

Orange with Title and Icon

{{% notice style="orange" title="Orange" icon="bug" %}}
A **orange** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}
Orange

A orange disclaimer

Red without a Title and Icon

{{% notice style="red" %}}
A **red** disclaimer
{{% /notice %}}

A red disclaimer

By Special Color

Default with Positional Parameter

{{% notice default "Pay Attention to this Note!" "skull-crossbones" %}}
Some serious information.
{{% /notice %}}
Pay Attention to this Note!

Some serious information.

Transparent with Title and Icon

{{% notice style="transparent" title="Pay Attention to this Note!" icon="skull-crossbones" %}}
Some serious information.
{{% /notice %}}
Pay Attention to this Note!

Some serious information.

With User-Defined Color, Font Awesome Brand Icon and Markdown Title

{{% notice color="fuchsia" title="**Hugo**" icon="fab fa-hackerrank" %}}
Victor? Is it you?
{{% /notice %}}
Hugo

Victor? Is it you?

OpenAPI

The openapi shortcode uses the Swagger UI library to display your OpenAPI / Swagger specifications.

Note

This only works in modern browsers.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{< openapi src="https://petstore3.openapi.io/api/v3/openapi.json" >}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/openapi.html" (dict
  "page" .
  "src"  "https://petstore3.openapi.io/api/v3/openapi.json"
)}}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
src <empty> The URL to the OpenAPI specification file. This can be relative to the URL of your page if it is a leaf or branch bundle.
Note

If you want to print out (or generate a PDF) from your OpenAPI documentation, don’t initiate printing directly from the page because the elements are optimized for interactive usage in a browser.

Instead, open the print preview in your browser and initiate printing from that page. This page is optimized for reading and expands most of the available sections.

Example

Using Local File

{{< openapi src="petstore.json" >}}

SiteParam

The siteparam shortcode prints values of site params.

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to use positional aswell or call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% siteparam name="editURL" %}}
{{% siteparam "editURL" %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/siteparam.html" (dict
  "page" .
  "name" "editURL"
)}}

Parameter

Name Position Default Notes
name 1 <empty> The name of the site param to be displayed.

Examples

editURL from hugo.toml

`editURL` value: {{% siteparam name="editURL" %}}

editURL value: https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn/edit/main/exampleSite/content/

Nested parameter with Markdown and HTML formatting

To use formatted parameter, add this in your hugo.toml:

[markup.goldmark.renderer]
    unsafe = true
[params]
    [params.siteparam.test]
        text = "A **nested** parameter <b>with</b> formatting"
Formatted parameter: {{% siteparam name="siteparam.test.text" %}}

Formatted parameter: A nested option <b>with</b> formatting

Tab

You can use a tab shortcode to display a single tab.

This is especially useful if you want to flag your code example with an explicit language.

If you want multiple tabs grouped together you can wrap your tabs into the tabs shortcode.

printf("Hello World!");

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{% tab title="c" %}}
```c
printf("Hello World!");
```
{{% /tab %}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/tab.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "title" "c"
  "content" ("```c\nprintf(\"Hello World!\")\n```" | .RenderString)
)}}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
style see notes The style scheme used for the tab. If you don’t set a style and you display a single code block inside of the tab, its default styling will adapt to that of a code block. Otherwise default is used.

- by severity: info, note, tip, warning
- by brand color: primary, secondary, accent
- by color: blue, green, grey, orange, red
- by special color: default, transparent, code
color see notes The CSS color value to be used. If not set, the chosen color depends on the style. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching color for the severity
- for all other styles: the corresponding color
title see notes Arbitrary title for the tab. Depending on the style there may be a default title. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: the matching title for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no title for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
icon see notes Font Awesome icon name set to the left of the title. Depending on the style there may be a default icon. Any given value will overwrite the default.

- for severity styles: a nice matching icon for the severity
- for all other styles: <empty>

If you want no icon for a severity style, you have to set this parameter to " " (a non empty string filled with spaces)
<content> <empty> Arbitrary text to be displayed in the tab.

Examples

Single Code Block with Collapsed Margins

{{% tab title="Code" %}}
```python
printf("Hello World!");
```
{{% /tab %}}
printf("Hello World!");

Mixed Markdown Content

{{% tab title="_**Mixed**_" %}}
A tab can not only contain code but arbitrary text. In this case text **and** code will get a margin.
```python
printf("Hello World!");
```
{{% /tab %}}

A tab can not only contain code but arbitrary text. In this case text and code will get a margin.

printf("Hello World!");

Understanding style and color Behavior

The style parameter affects how the color parameter is applied.

{{< tabs >}}
{{% tab title="just colored style" style="blue" %}}
The `style` parameter is set to a color style.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen style color as configured in your theme variant.
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="just color" color="blue" %}}
Only the `color` parameter is set.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen CSS color value.
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="default style and color" style="default" color="blue" %}}
The `style` parameter affects how the `color` parameter is applied.

The `default` style will set the background to your `--MAIN-BG-color` as configured for your theme variant resembling the default style but with different color.
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="just severity style" style="info" %}}
The `style` parameter is set to a severity style.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen style color as configured in your theme variant and also affects the chosen icon.
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="severity style and color" style="info" color="blue" %}}
The `style` parameter affects how the `color` parameter is applied.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen CSS color value and also affects the chosen icon.
{{% /tab %}}
{{< /tabs >}}

The style parameter is set to a color style.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen style color as configured in your theme variant.

Only the color parameter is set.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen CSS color value.

The style parameter affects how the color parameter is applied.

The default style will set the background to your --MAIN-BG-color as configured for your theme variant resembling the default style but with different color.

The style parameter is set to a severity style.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen style color as configured in your theme variant and also affects the chosen icon.

The style parameter affects how the color parameter is applied.

This will set the background to a lighter version of the chosen CSS color value and also affects the chosen icon.

Tabs

The tabs shortcode displays arbitrary content in an unlimited number of tabs.

This comes in handy eg. for providing code snippets for multiple languages.

If you just want a single tab you can instead call the tab shortcode standalone.

hello.
print("Hello World!")
echo "Hello World!"
printf("Hello World!");

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

See the tab shortcode for a description of the parameter for nested tabs.

{{< tabs title="hello." >}}
{{% tab title="py" %}}
```python
print("Hello World!")
```
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="sh" %}}
```bash
echo "Hello World!"
```
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="c" %}}
```c
printf"Hello World!");
```
{{% /tab %}}
{{< /tabs >}}
{{ partial "shortcodes/tabs.html" (dict
  "page"  .
  "title" "hello."
  "content" (slice
    (dict
      "title" "py"
      "content" ("```python\nprint(\"Hello World!\")\n```" | .RenderString)
    )
    (dict
      "title" "sh"
      "content" ("```bash\necho \"Hello World!\"\n```" | .RenderString)
    )
    (dict
      "title" "c"
      "content" ("```c\nprintf(\"Hello World!\");\n```" | .RenderString)
    )
  )
)}}

Parameter

Name Default Notes
groupid <random> Arbitrary name of the group the tab view belongs to.

Tab views with the same groupid sychronize their selected tab. The tab selection is restored automatically based on the groupid for tab view. If the selected tab can not be found in a tab group the first tab is selected instead.

This sychronization applies to the whole site!
style <empty> Sets a default value for every contained tab. Can be overridden by each tab. See the tab shortcode for possible values.
color <empty> Sets a default value for every contained tab. Can be overridden by each tab. See the tab shortcode for possible values.
title <empty> Arbitrary title written in front of the tab view.
icon <empty> Font Awesome icon name set to the left of the title.
<content> <empty> Arbitrary number of tabs defined with the tab sub-shortcode.

Examples

Behavior of the groupid

See what happens to the tab views while you select different tabs.

While pressing a tab of Group A switches all tab views of Group A in sync (if the tab is available), the tabs of Group B are left untouched.

{{< tabs groupid="a" >}}
{{% tab title="json" %}}
{{< highlight json "linenos=true" >}}
{ "Hello": "World" }
{{< /highlight >}}
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="_**XML**_ stuff" %}}
```xml
<Hello>World</Hello>
```
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="text" %}}
    Hello World
{{% /tab %}}
{{< /tabs >}}
{{< tabs groupid="a" >}}
{{% tab title="json" %}}
{{< highlight json "linenos=true" >}}
{ "Hello": "World" }
{{< /highlight >}}
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="XML stuff" %}}
```xml
<Hello>World</Hello>
```
{{% /tab %}}
{{< /tabs >}}
{{< tabs groupid="b" >}}
{{% tab title="json" %}}
{{< highlight json "linenos=true" >}}
{ "Hello": "World" }
{{< /highlight >}}
{{% /tab %}}
{{% tab title="XML stuff" %}}
```xml
<Hello>World</Hello>
```
{{% /tab %}}
{{< /tabs >}}

Group A, Tab View 1

1{ "Hello": "World" }
<Hello>World</Hello>
Hello World

Group A, Tab View 2

1{ "Hello": "World" }
<Hello>World</Hello>

Group B

1{ "Hello": "World" }
<Hello>World</Hello>

Nested Tab Views and Color

In case you want to nest tab views, the parent tab that contains nested tab views needs to be declared with {{< tab >}} instead of {{% tab %}}. Note, that in this case it is not possible to put markdown in the parent tab.

You can also set style and color parameter for all tabs and overwrite them on tab level. See the tab shortcode for possible values.

{{< tabs groupid="main" style="primary" title="Rationale" icon="thumbtack" >}}
{{< tab title="Text" >}}
  Simple text is possible here...
  {{< tabs groupid="tabs-example-language" >}}
  {{% tab title="python" %}}
  Python is **super** easy.

  - most of the time.
  - if you don't want to output unicode
  {{% /tab %}}
  {{% tab title="bash" %}}
  Bash is for **hackers**.
  {{% /tab %}}
  {{< /tabs >}}
{{< /tab >}}

{{< tab title="Code" style="default" color="darkorchid" >}}
  ...but no markdown
  {{< tabs groupid="tabs-example-language" >}}
  {{% tab title="python" %}}
  ```python
  print("Hello World!")
  ```
  {{% /tab %}}
  {{% tab title="bash" %}}
  ```bash
  echo "Hello World!"
  ```
  {{% /tab %}}
  {{< /tabs >}}
{{< /tab >}}
{{< /tabs >}}
Rationale

Simple text is possible here...

Python is super easy.

  • most of the time.
  • if you don’t want to output unicode

Bash is for hackers.

...but no markdown

print("Hello World!")
echo "Hello World!"