docusaurus/website/docs/api/plugins/plugin-content-docs.md

---
id: plugin-content-docs
title: '📦 plugin-content-docs'
slug: '/api/plugins/@docusaurus/plugin-content-docs'
---

Provides the [Docs](../../guides/docs/docs-introduction.md) functionality and is the default docs plugin for Docusaurus.

## Installation {#installation}

```bash npm2yarn
npm install --save @docusaurus/plugin-content-docs
```

:::tip

If you have installed `@docusaurus/preset-classic`, you don't need to install it as a dependency. You can also configure it through the [classic preset options](presets.md#docusauruspreset-classic) instead of doing it like below.

:::

## Configuration {#configuration}

```js title="docusaurus.config.js"
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/plugin-content-docs',
      {
        /**
         * Path to data on filesystem relative to site dir.
         */
        path: 'docs',
        /**
         * Base url to edit your site.
         * Docusaurus will compute the final editUrl with "editUrl + relativeDocPath"
         */
        editUrl: 'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website/',
        /**
         * For advanced cases, compute the edit url for each Markdown file yourself.
         */
        editUrl: function ({
          locale,
          version,
          versionDocsDirPath,
          docPath,
          permalink,
        }) {
          return `https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website/${versionDocsDirPath}/${docPath}`;
        },
        /**
         * Useful if you commit localized files to git.
         * When Markdown files are localized, the edit url will target the localized file,
         * instead of the original unlocalized file.
         * Note: this option is ignored when editUrl is a function
         */
        editLocalizedFiles: false,
        /**
         * Useful if you don't want users to submit doc pull-requests to older versions.
         * When docs are versioned, the edit url will link to the doc
         * in current version, instead of the versioned doc.
         * Note: this option is ignored when editUrl is a function
         */
        editCurrentVersion: false,
        /**
         * URL route for the docs section of your site.
         * *DO NOT* include a trailing slash.
         * INFO: It is possible to set just `/` for shipping docs without base path.
         */
        routeBasePath: 'docs',
        include: ['**/*.md', '**/*.mdx'], // Extensions to include.
        /**
         * Path to sidebar configuration for showing a list of markdown pages.
         */
        sidebarPath: 'sidebars.js',
        /**
         * Function used to replace the sidebar items of type "autogenerated"
         * by real sidebar items (docs, categories, links...)
         */
        sidebarItemsGenerator: async function ({
          defaultSidebarItemsGenerator, // useful to re-use/enhance default sidebar generation logic from Docusaurus
          numberPrefixParser, // numberPrefixParser configured for this plugin
          item, // the sidebar item with type "autogenerated"
          version, // the current version
          docs, // all the docs of that version (unfiltered)
        }) {
          // Use the provided data to generate a custom sidebar slice
          return [
            {type: 'doc', id: 'intro'},
            {
              type: 'category',
              label: 'Tutorials',
              items: [
                {type: 'doc', id: 'tutorial1'},
                {type: 'doc', id: 'tutorial2'},
              ],
            },
          ];
        },
        /**
         * The Docs plugin supports number prefixes like "01-My Folder/02.My Doc.md".
         * Number prefixes are extracted and used as position to order autogenerated sidebar items.
         * For conveniency, number prefixes are automatically removed from the default doc id, name, title.
         * This parsing logic is configurable to allow all possible usecases and filename patterns.
         * Use "false" to disable this behavior and leave the docs untouched.
         */
        numberPrefixParser: function (filename) {
          // Implement your own logic to extract a potential number prefix
          const numberPrefix = findNumberPrefix(filename);
          // Prefix found: return it with the cleaned filename
          if (numberPrefix) {
            return {
              numberPrefix,
              filename: filename.replace(prefix, ''),
            };
          }
          // No number prefix found
          return {numberPrefix: undefined, filename};
        },
        /**
         * Theme components used by the docs pages
         */
        docLayoutComponent: '@theme/DocPage',
        docItemComponent: '@theme/DocItem',
        /**
         * Remark and Rehype plugins passed to MDX
         */
        remarkPlugins: [
          /* require('remark-math') */
        ],
        rehypePlugins: [],
        /**
         * Custom Remark and Rehype plugins passed to MDX before
         * the default Docusaurus Remark and Rehype plugins.
         */
        beforeDefaultRemarkPlugins: [],
        beforeDefaultRehypePlugins: [],
        /**
         * Whether to display the author who last updated the doc.
         */
        showLastUpdateAuthor: false,
        /**
         * Whether to display the last date the doc was updated.
         */
        showLastUpdateTime: false,
        /**
         * By default, versioning is enabled on versioned sites.
         * This is a way to explicitly disable the versioning feature.
         * This will only include the "current" version (the `/docs` directory)
         */
        disableVersioning: false,
        /**
         * Include the "current" version of your docs (the `/docs` directory)
         * Tip: turn it off if the current version is a work-in-progress, not ready to be published
         */
        includeCurrentVersion: true,
        /**
         * The last version is the one we navigate to in priority on versioned sites
         * It is the one displayed by default in docs navbar items
         * By default, the last version is the first one to appear in versions.json
         * By default, the last version is at the "root" (docs have path=/docs/myDoc)
         * Note: it is possible to configure the path and label of the last version
         * Tip: using lastVersion: 'current' make sense in many cases
         */
        lastVersion: undefined,
        /**
         * The docusaurus versioning defaults don't make sense for all projects
         * This gives the ability customize the properties of each version independantly
         * - label: the label of the version
         * - path: the route path of the version
         * - banner: the banner to show at the top of a doc of that version: "none" | "unreleased" | "unmaintained"
         */
        versions: {
          /*
          Example configuration: 
          current: {
            label: 'Android SDK v2.0.0 (WIP)',
            path: 'android-2.0.0',
            banner: 'none',
          },
          '1.0.0': {
            label: 'Android SDK v1.0.0',
            path: 'android-1.0.0',
            banner: 'unmaintained',
          },
          */
        },
        /**
         * Sometimes you only want to include a subset of all available versions.
         * Tip: limit to 2 or 3 versions to improve startup and build time in dev and deploy previews
         */
        onlyIncludeVersions: undefined, // ex: ["current", "1.0.0", "2.0.0"]
      },
    ],
  ],
};
```

## Markdown Frontmatter {#markdown-frontmatter}

Markdown documents can use the following Markdown FrontMatter metadata fields, enclosed by a line `---` on either side:

- `id`: A unique document id. Default value: file path (including folders, without the extension)
- `title`: The text title of your document. Used for the page metadata and as a fallback value in multiple places (sidebar, next/previous buttons...). Automatically added at the top of your doc if it does not contain any Markdown title. Default value: Markdown title or doc `id`
- `hide_title`: Whether to hide the title at the top of the doc. It only hides a title declared through the frontmatter, and have no effect on a Markdown title at the top of your document. Default value: `false`
- `hide_table_of_contents`: Whether to hide the table of contents to the right. Default value: `false`
- `sidebar_label`: The text shown in the document sidebar for this document. Default value: `title`
- `sidebar_position`: Permits to control the position of a doc inside the generated sidebar slice, when using `autogenerated` sidebar items. Can be Int or Float.
- `pagination_label`: The text used in the document next/previous buttons for this document. Default value: `sidebar_label`, or `title`
- `parse_number_prefixes`: When a document has a number prefix (`001 - My Doc.md`, `2. MyDoc.md`...), it is automatically parsed and extracted by the plugin `numberPrefixParser`, and the number prefix is used as `sidebar_position`. Use `parse_number_prefixes: false` to disable number prefix parsing on this doc. Default value: `parse_number_prefixes` plugin option
- `custom_edit_url`: The URL for editing this document. Default value: computed using the `editUrl` plugin options
- `keywords`: Keywords meta tag for the document page, for search engines
- `description`: The description of your document, which will become the `<meta name="description" content="..."/>` and `<meta property="og:description" content="..."/>` in `<head>`, used by search engines. Default value: the first line of Markdown content
- `image`: Cover or thumbnail image that will be used when displaying the link to your post.
- `slug`: Allows to customize the document url (`/<routeBasePath>/<slug>`). Support multiple patterns: `slug: my-doc`, `slug: /my/path/myDoc`, `slug: /`.

Example:

```yml
---
id: doc-markdown
title: Docs Markdown Features
hide_title: false
hide_table_of_contents: false
sidebar_label: Markdown
sidebar_position: 3
pagination_label: Markdown features
custom_edit_url: https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/docs/api-doc-markdown.md
description: How do I find you when I cannot solve this problem
keywords:
  - docs
  - docusaurus
image: https://i.imgur.com/mErPwqL.png
slug: /myDoc
---
# Markdown Features

My Document Markdown content
```

## i18n {#i18n}

Read the [i18n introduction](../../i18n/i18n-introduction.md) first.

### Translation files location {#translation-files-location}

- **Base path**: `website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs`
- **Multi-instance path**: `website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-<pluginId>`
- **JSON files**: extracted with [`docusaurus write-translations`](../../cli.md#docusaurus-write-translations-sitedir)
- **Markdown files**: `website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/<version>`

### Example file-system structure {#example-file-system-structure}

```bash
website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs
│
│ # translations for website/docs
├── current
│   ├── api
│   │   └── config.md
│   └── getting-started.md
├── current.json
│
│ # translations for website/versioned_docs/version-1.0.0
├── version-1.0.0
│   ├── api
│   │   └── config.md
│   └── getting-started.md
└── version-1.0.0.json
```