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title: Configure Markup
description: How to handle Markdown and other markup related configuration.
date: 2019-11-15
categories: [getting started,fundamentals]
keywords: [configuration,highlighting]
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slug: configuration-markup
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## Configure Markup
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See [Goldmark](#goldmark) for settings related to the default Markdown handler in Hugo.
Below are all markup related configuration in Hugo with their default settings:
{{< code-toggle config="markup" />}}
**See each section below for details.**
### Goldmark
[Goldmark](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/) is from Hugo 0.60 the default library used for Markdown. It's fast, it's [CommonMark](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/) compliant and it's very flexible. Note that the feature set of Goldmark vs Blackfriday isn't the same; you gain a lot but also lose some, but we will work to bridge any gap in the upcoming Hugo versions.
This is the default configuration:
{{< code-toggle config="markup.goldmark" />}}
For details on the extensions, refer to [this section](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/#built-in-extensions) of the Goldmark documentation
Some settings explained:
unsafe
: By default, Goldmark does not render raw HTMLs and potentially dangerous links. If you have lots of inline HTML and/or JavaScript, you may need to turn this on.
typographer
: This extension substitutes punctuations with typographic entities like [smartypants](https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/).
autoHeadingIDType ("github") {{< new-in "0.62.2" >}}
: The strategy used for creating auto IDs (anchor names). Available types are `github`, `github-ascii` and `blackfriday`. `github` produces GitHub-compatible IDs, `github-ascii` will drop any non-Ascii characters after accent normalization, and `blackfriday` will make the IDs work as with [Blackfriday](#blackfriday), the default Markdown engine before Hugo 0.60. Note that if Goldmark is your default Markdown engine, this is also the strategy used in the [anchorize](/functions/anchorize/) template func.
### Blackfriday
[Blackfriday](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday) was Hugo's default Markdown rendering engine, now replaced with Goldmark. But you can still use it: Just set `defaultMarkdownHandler` to `blackfriday` in your top level `markup` config.
This is the default config:
{{< code-toggle config="markup.blackFriday" />}}
### Highlight
This is the default `highlight` configuration. Note that some of these settings can be set per code block, see [Syntax Highlighting](/content-management/syntax-highlighting/).
{{< code-toggle config="markup.highlight" />}}
For `style`, see these galleries:
* [Short snippets](https://xyproto.github.io/splash/docs/all.html)
* [Long snippets](https://xyproto.github.io/splash/docs/longer/all.html)
For CSS, see [Generate Syntax Highlighter CSS](/content-management/syntax-highlighting/#generate-syntax-highlighter-css).
### Table Of Contents
{{< code-toggle config="markup.tableOfContents" />}}
These settings only works for the Goldmark renderer:
startLevel
: The heading level, values starting at 1 (`h1`), to start render the table of contents.
endLevel
: The heading level, inclusive, to stop render the table of contents.
ordered
: Whether or not to generate an ordered list instead of an unordered list.
## Markdown Render Hooks
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Note that this is only supported with the [Goldmark](#goldmark) renderer.
Render Hooks allow custom templates to override markdown rendering functionality. You can do this by creating templates with base names `render-{feature}` in `layouts/_default/_markup`.
You can also create type/section specific hooks in `layouts/[type/section]/_markup`, e.g.: `layouts/blog/_markup`.{{< new-in "0.71.0" >}}
The features currently supported are:
* `image`
* `link`
* `heading` {{< new-in "0.71.0" >}}
You can define [Output-Format-](/templates/output-formats) and [language-](/content-management/multilingual/)specific templates if needed. Your `layouts` folder may look like this:
```bash
layouts
└── _default
└── _markup
├── render-image.html
├── render-image.rss.xml
└── render-link.html
```
Some use cases for the above:
* Resolve link references using `.GetPage`. This would make links portable as you could translate `./my-post.md` (and similar constructs that would work on GitHub) into `/blog/2019/01/01/my-post/` etc.
* Add `target=_blank` to external links.
* Resolve and [process](/content-management/image-processing/) images.
* Add [header links](https://remysharp.com/2014/08/08/automatic-permalinks-for-blog-posts).
### Render Hook Templates
The `render-link` and `render-image` templates will receive this context:
Page
: The [Page](/variables/page/) being rendered.
Destination
: The URL.
Title
: The title attribute.
Text
: The rendered (HTML) link text.
PlainText
: The plain variant of the above.
The `render-heading` template will receive this context:
Page
: The [Page](/variables/page/) being rendered.
Level
: The header level (1--6)
Anchor
: An auto-generated html id unique to the header within the page
Text
: The rendered (HTML) text.
PlainText
: The plain variant of the above.
#### Link with title Markdown example:
```md
[Text](https://www.gohugo.io "Title")
```
Here is a code example for how the render-link.html template could look:
{{< code file="layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html" >}}
<a href="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}"{{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}"{{ end }}{{ if strings.HasPrefix .Destination "http" }} target="_blank" rel="noopener"{{ end }}>{{ .Text | safeHTML }}</a>
{{< /code >}}
#### Image Markdown example:
```md
```
Here is a code example for how the render-image.html template could look:
{{< code file="layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html" >}}
<p class="md__image">
<img src="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}" alt="{{ .Text }}" {{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}"{{ end }} />
</p>
{{< /code >}}
#### Heading link example
Given this template file
{{< code file="layouts/_default/_markup/render-heading.html" >}}
<h{{ .Level }} id="{{ .Anchor | safeURL }}">{{ .Text | safeHTML }} <a href="#{{ .Anchor | safeURL }}">¶</a></h{{ .Level }}>
{{< /code >}}
And this markdown
```md
### Section A
```
The rendered html will be
```html
<h3 id="section-a">Section A <a href="#section-a">¶</a></h3>
```