Frontmatter Config

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

Example usage:

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

You can access frontmatter data via the $frontmatter global in Vue expressions:

{{ $frontmatter.title }}

title

• Type: string

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

---
title: VitePress
---

titleTemplate

• Type: string | boolean

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

---
description: VitePress
---

head

• Type: HeadConfig[]

Specify extra head tags to be injected for the current page. Will be appended after head tags injected by site-level config.

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

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

Default Theme Only

The following frontmatter options are only applicable when using the default theme.

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 home page only

Defines contents of home hero section when layout is set to home. More details in Default Theme: Home Page.

features home page only

Defines items to display in features section when layout is set to home. More details in Default Theme: Home Page.

navbar

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Whether to display navbar.

---
navbar: false
---

sidebar

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Whether to display sidebar.

---
sidebar: false
---

aside

• Type: boolean | 'left'
• Default: true

Defines the location of the aside component in the doc layout.

Setting this value to false prevents rendering of aside container.
Setting this value to true renders the aside to the right.
Setting this value to 'left' renders the aside to the left.

---
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.level, and it overrides the value set in site-level config.

---
outline: [2, 4]
---

lastUpdated

• Type: boolean | Date
• Default: true

Whether to display last updated text in the footer of the current page. If a datetime is specified, it will be displayed instead of the last git modified timestamp.

---
lastUpdated: false
---

editLink

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Whether to display edit link in the footer of the current page.

---
editLink: false
---

footer

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Whether to display footer.

---
footer: false
---

pageClass

• Type: string

Add extra class name to a specific page.

---
pageClass: custom-page-class
---

Then you can customize styles of this specific page in .vitepress/theme/custom.css file:

.custom-page-class {
  /* page-specific styles */
}