hugo-theme-relearn/exampleSite/content/shortcodes/children/_index.en.md

+++ alwaysopen = false description = "List the child pages of a page" title = "Children" +++

The children shortcode lists the child pages of the current page and its descendants.

{{% children sort="weight" %}}

Usage

While the examples are using shortcodes with named parameter you are free to also call this shortcode from your own partials.

{{< tabs groupId="shortcode-parameter">}} {{% tab title="shortcode" %}}

{{%/* children sort="weight" */%}}

{{% /tab %}} {{% tab title="partial" %}}

{{ partial "shortcodes/children.html" (dict
  "context" .
  "sort" "weight"
)}}

{{% /tab %}} {{< /tabs >}}

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	see notes	The sort order of the displayed list. If not set it is sorted by the [ordersectionsby]({{% relref "basics/configuration#global-site-parameters" %}}) setting of the site and the pages frontmatter - weight: to sort on menu order - title: to sort alphabetically on menu label.

Examples

All Default

{{%/* children  */%}}

{{% children %}}

With Description

{{%/* children description="true" */%}}

{{%children description="true" %}}

Infinite Depth and Hidden Pages

{{%/* children depth="999" showhidden="true" */%}}

{{% children depth="999" showhidden="true" %}}

Heading Styles for Container and Elements

{{%/* children containerstyle="div" style="h2" depth="3" description="true" */%}}

{{% children containerstyle="div" style="h2" depth="3" description="true" %}}

Divs for Group and Element Styles

{{%/* children containerstyle="div" style="div" depth="3" */%}}

{{% children containerstyle="div" style="div" depth="3" %}}