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Markdown attributes Use Markdown attributes to add HTML attributes when rendering Markdown to HTML.
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Overview

Hugo supports Markdown attributes on images and block elements including blockquotes, fenced code blocks, headings, horizontal rules, lists, paragraphs, and tables.

For example:

This is a paragraph.
{class="foo bar" id="baz"}

With class and id you can use shorthand notation:

This is a paragraph.
{.foo .bar #baz}

Hugo renders both of these to:

<p class="foo bar" id="baz">This is a paragraph.</p>

Block elements

Update your site configuration to enable Markdown attributes for block-level elements.

{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}} [markup.goldmark.parser.attribute] title = true # default is true block = true # default is false {{< /code-toggle >}}

Standalone images

By default, when the Goldmark Markdown renderer encounters a standalone image element (no other elements or text on the same line), it wraps the image element within a paragraph element per the CommonMark specification.

If you were to place an attribute list beneath an image element, Hugo would apply the attributes to the surrounding paragraph, not the image.

To apply attributes to a standalone image element, you must disable the default wrapping behavior:

{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}} [markup.goldmark.parser] wrapStandAloneImageWithinParagraph = false # default is true {{< /code-toggle >}}

Usage

You may add global HTML attributes, or HTML attributes specific to the current element type. Consistent with its content security model, Hugo removes HTML event attributes such as onclick and onmouseover.

The attribute list consists of one or more key-value pairs, separated by spaces or commas, wrapped by braces. You must quote string values that contain spaces. Unlike HTML, boolean attributes must have both key and value.

For example:

> This is a blockquote.
{class="foo bar" hidden=hidden}

Hugo renders this to:

<blockquote class="foo bar" hidden="hidden">
  <p>This is a blockquote.</p>
</blockquote>

In most cases, place the attribute list beneath the markup element. For headings and fenced code blocks, place the attribute list on the right.

Element Position of attribute list
blockquote bottom
fenced code block right
heading right
horizontal rule bottom
image bottom
list bottom
paragraph bottom
table bottom

For example:

## Section 1 {class=foo}

```bash {class=foo linenos=inline}
declare a=1
echo "${a}"
```

This is a paragraph.
{class=foo}

As shown above, the attribute list for fenced code blocks is not limited to HTML attributes. You can also configure syntax highlighting by passing one or more of these options.