documentazione/pages/mydoc/mydoc_glossary.md

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title: Glossary layout tags: [formatting, special_layouts] keywords: definitions, glossaries, terms, style guide last_updated: July 3, 2016 summary: "Your glossary page can take advantage of definitions stored in a data file. This gives you the ability to reuse the same definition in multiple places. Additionally, you can use Bootstrap classes to arrange your definition list horizontally." sidebar: mydoc_sidebar permalink: mydoc_glossary.html toc: false

folder: mydoc

You can create a glossary for your content. First create your glossary items in a data file such as glossary.yml.

Then create a page and use definition list formatting, like this:

fractious : {{site.data.glossary.fractious}}

gratuitous : {{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}

haughty : {{site.data.glossary.haughty}}

gratuitous : {{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}

impertinent : {{site.data.glossary.intrepid}}

Here's the code:

{% raw %}fractious
: {{site.data.glossary.fractious}}

gratuitous
: {{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}

haughty
: {{site.data.glossary.haughty}}

gratuitous
: {{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}

impertinent
: {{site.data.glossary.intrepid}}{% endraw %}

The glossary works well as a link in the top navigation bar.

Horizontally styled definiton lists

You can also change the definition list (dl) class to dl-horizontal. This is a Bootstrap specific class. If you do, the styling looks like this:

fractious

{{site.data.glossary.fractious}}

gratuitous

{{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}

haughty

{{site.data.glossary.haughty}}

gratuitous

{{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}

impertinent

{{site.data.glossary.impertinent}}

intrepid

{{site.data.glossary.intrepid}}

For this type of list, you must use HTML. The list would then look like this:

{% raw %}<dl class="dl-horizontal">

<dt id="fractious">fractious</dt>
<dd>{{site.data.glossary.fractious}}</dd>

<dt id="gratuitous">gratuitous</dt>
<dd>{{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}</dd>

<dt id="haughty">haughty</dt>
<dd>{{site.data.glossary.haughty}}</dd>

<dt id="benchmark_id">gratuitous</dt>
<dd>{{site.data.glossary.gratuitous}}</dd>

<dt id="impertinent">impertinent</dt>
<dd>{{site.data.glossary.impertinent}}</dd>

<dt id="intrepid">intrepid</dt>
<dd>{{site.data.glossary.intrepid}}</dd>

</dl>{% endraw %}

If you squish your screen small enough, at a certain breakpoint this style reverts to the regular dl class.

Although I like the side-by-side view for shorter definitions, I found it problematic with longer definitions.

{% include links.html %}