Markbase

Customizing a document title

There are several ways to customize which title a document has.

Using a markdown title

If the configuration option hoistMarkdownTitles is set to true, the first markdown heading will be used as the document title.

# This title will be used as document title

Content

# This title will be displayed normally

Using a frontmatter title

You can also set the title in the document frontmatter:

---
title: This title will be used as document title
---

Content

Customizing what is shown in the sidebar

You can use frontmatter to display a different title in the sidebar than in the document itself:

---
title: This title will be used as document title
sidebarTitle: This title will be displayed in the sidebar
---

Content

Customizing the title of a folder

You can use a folder.yml file to customize the title of a folder:

title: This title will be used as folder title