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Configuration

Just the Docs has some specific configuration parameters that can be defined in your Jekyll site’s _config.yml file.

Table of contents

  2. Search
  3. Aux links
  4. Heading anchor links
  5. Footer content
  6. Color scheme
  7. Google Analytics

View this site’s _config.yml file as an example.

# Set a path/url to a logo that will be displayed instead of the title
logo: "/assets/images/just-the-docs.png"

# Enable or disable the site search
# Supports true (default) or false
search_enabled: true

search:
  # Split pages into sections that can be searched individually
  # Supports 1 - 6, default: 2
  heading_level: 2
  # Maximum amount of previews per search result
  # Default: 3
  previews: 3
  # Maximum amount of words to display before a matched word in the preview
  # Default: 5
  preview_words_before: 5
  # Maximum amount of words to display after a matched word in the preview
  # Default: 10
  preview_words_after: 10
  # Set the search token separator
  # Default: /[\s\-/]+/
  # Example: enable support for hyphenated search words
  tokenizer_separator: /[\s/]+/
  # Display the relative url in search results
  # Supports true (default) or false
  rel_url: true
  # Enable or disable the search button that appears in the bottom right corner of every page
  # Supports true or false (default)
  button: false

# Aux links for the upper right navigation
aux_links:
  "Just the Docs on GitHub":
    - "//github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs"

# Makes Aux links open in a new tab. Default is false
aux_links_new_tab: false

# Heading anchor links appear on hover over h1-h6 tags in page content
# allowing users to deep link to a particular heading on a page.
#
# Supports true (default) or false
heading_anchors: true

Footer content

# Footer content 
# appears at the bottom of every page's main content
footer_content: "Copyright &copy; 2017-2019 Patrick Marsceill. Distributed by an <a href=\"https://github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs/tree/master/LICENSE.txt\">MIT license.</a>"

# Footer last edited timestamp
last_edit_timestamp: true # show or hide edit time - page must have `last_modified_date` defined in the frontmatter
last_edit_time_format: "%b %e %Y at %I:%M %p" # uses ruby's time format: https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.7.0/libdoc/time/rdoc/Time.html

# Footer "Edit this page on GitHub" link text
gh_edit_link: true # show or hide edit this page link
gh_edit_link_text: "Edit this page on GitHub."
gh_edit_repository: "https://github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs" # the github URL for your repo
gh_edit_branch: "master" # the branch that your docs is served from
gh_edit_view_mode: "tree" # "tree" or "edit" if you want the user to jump into the editor immediately
  • the “page last modified” data will only display if a page has a key called last_modified_date, formatted in some readable date format
  • last_edit_time_format uses Ruby’s DateTime formatter; see examples and more information at this link.
  • gh_edit_repository is the URL of the project’s GitHub repository
  • gh_edit_branch is the branch that the docs site is served from; defaults to master
  • gh_edit_view_mode is "tree" by default, which brings the user to the github page; switch to "edit" to bring the user directly into editing mode

Color scheme

# Color scheme supports "light" (default) and "dark"
color_scheme: dark

See Customization for more information.

Google Analytics

# Google Analytics Tracking (optional)
# e.g, UA-1234567-89
ga_tracking: UA-5555555-55
ga_tracking_anonymize_ip: true # Use GDPR compliant Google Analytics settings (true by default)