Frontmatter Config #

Frontmatter enables page based configuration. In every markdown file, you can use frontmatter config to override app-level or theme config options. Also, there are config options which you can only define in frontmatter.

---
title: Docs with VitePress
editLink: true
---

You can access frontmatter by $frontmatter helper inside any markdown file.

{{ $frontmatter.title }}

title #

• Type: string

Title for the page. It's same as config.title, and it overrides the app config.

---
title: VitePress
---

titleTemplate #

• Type: string | boolean

The suffix for the title. It's same as config.titleTemplate, and it overrides the app config.

---
title: VitePress
titleTemplate: Vite & Vue powered static site generator
---

description #

• Type: string

Description for the page. It's same as config.description, and it overrides the app config.

---
description: VitePress
---

head #

• Type: HeadConfig[]

Specify extra head tags to be injected:

---
head:
  - - meta
    - name: description
      content: hello
  - - meta
    - name: keywords
      content: super duper SEO
---

type HeadConfig =
  | [string, Record<string, string>]
  | [string, Record<string, string>, string]

lastUpdated #

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Whether to display Last Updated text in the current page.

---
lastUpdated: false
---

layout #

• Type: doc | home | page
• Default: doc

Determines the layout of the page.

• doc - It applies default documentation styles to the markdown content.
• home - Special layout for "Home Page". You may add extra options such as hero and features to rapidly create beautiful landing page.
• page - Behave similar to doc but it applies no styles to the content. Useful when you want to create a fully custom page.

---
layout: doc
---

hero #

• Type: Hero

This option only takes effect when layout is set to home.

It defines contents of home hero section.

---
layout: home

hero:
  name: VitePress
  text: Vite & Vue powered static site generator.
  tagline: Lorem ipsum...
  actions:
    - theme: brand
      text: Get Started
      link: /guide/what-is-vitepress
    - theme: alt
      text: View on GitHub
      link: https://github.com/vuejs/vitepress
---

interface Hero {
  // The string shown top of `text`. Comes with brand color
  // and expected to be short, such as product name.
  name?: string

  // The main text for the hero section. This will be defined
  // as `h1` tag.
  text: string

  // Tagline displayed below `text`.
  tagline?: string

  // Action buttons to display in home hero section.
  actions?: HeroAction[]
}

interface HeroAction {
  // Color theme of the button. Defaults to `brand`.
  theme?: 'brand' | 'alt'

  // Label of the button.
  text: string

  // Destination link of the button.
  link: string
}

features #

• Type: Feature[]

This option only takes effect when layout is set to home.

It defines items to display in features section.

You may learn more about it in Theme: Home Page.

aside #

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

If you want the right aside component in doc layout not to be shown, set this option to false.

---
aside: false
---

outline #

• Type: number | [number, number] | 'deep' | false
• Default: 2

The levels of header in the outline to display for the page. It's same as config.themeConfig.outline, and it overrides the theme config.