Metadata

The Metadata extension makes it possible to add metadata to a document which gives more control over the theme in a page-specific context.

Installation

Add the following lines to your mkdocs.yml:

markdown_extensions:
  - metadata

Usage

Metadata is written as a series of key-value pairs at the beginning of the Markdown document, delimited by a blank line which ends the metadata context. Naturally, the metadata is stripped from the document before rendering the actual page content and made available to the theme.

Example:

title: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
description: Nullam urna elit, malesuada eget finibus ut, ac tortor.
path: tree/master/path/to/file
source: file.js

# Headline

...

See the next section which covers the metadata that is supported by Material.

Overriding the title

The page title can be overridden on a per-document level:

title: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

This will set the title tag inside the document head for the current page to the provided value. It will also override the default behaviour of Material for MkDocs which appends the site title using a dash as a separator to the page title.

Overriding the description

The page description can also be overridden on a per-document level:

description: Nullam urna elit, malesuada eget finibus ut, ac tortor.

This will set the meta tag containing the site description inside the document head for the current page to the provided value.

Linking sources

When a document is related to a specific set of source files and the repo_url is defined inside the project's mkdocs.yml, the files can be linked using the source key:

source: file.js

A new entry at the bottom of the table of contents is generated that is linking to the section listing the linked source files. Multiple files can be linked by adding filenames on separate lines:

source: file.js
        file.css

The filenames are appended to the repo_url set in your mkdocs.yml, but can be prefixed with a path to ensure correct path resolving:

Example:

path: tree/master/docs/extensions
source: metadata.md

Result:

See the source section for the resulting output.

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