I am trying to rebuild a blog in Jekyll and I have stubled upon a simple task.
Provided I have the following set of templates:
default.html:
{{ head }}
{{ content }}
frontpage.html:
---
layout: default
---
{% capture head %}
Frontpage
{% end %}
{{ content }}
index.html:
---
layout: frontpage
---
Other stuff
I was expecting that {% capture head %}
would pass a variable to layout. But it seems only variables from the Front Matter are actually being passed as page.variable_name
.
Is there a way to pass capture
-d var to the layout in Jekyll?
Guess I could make 2 different layouts for frontpage
and normal_page
that would replace the whole {{head}}{{content}}
block in the layout. But that's like twice the html, so I'd rather solve it with capture
if possible.
You can't do this with a capture, but you can using an include. Every level of the page hierarchy can override the
head
key to point to a different include file as requireddefault.html
frontpage.html
_includes/header1.html
If your use-case is like mine and you want to include add'l content inside your template, you can include multiline content from your front matter into the template using YAML's block scalar feature. A
|
keeps line-breaks while a>
removes ("folds") line-breaks. (Note that the block indicator must be followed by a blank line.)index.html
default.html