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Retrieving Custom FrontMatter? #35
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Hi, If I want to add a custom frontmatter key/value pair, like The document, https://statiq.dev/web/content-and-data/metadata/front-matter, doesn't say how to access those values either. |
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Great question, I'll add some additional detail to the docs! The way front matter works is that it gets stored in the document as a key/value pair. The document is very much like a In a Razor page that might look like |
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Oh, there we go! I got what I want, with |
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Great question, I'll add some additional detail to the docs! The way front matter works is that it gets stored in the document as a key/value pair. The document is very much like a
Dictionary<string,object>with some extra super-powers like handy type conversion. To put it another way, you use the name of the front matter as a string-based key anywhere you have anIDocument.In a Razor page that might look like
Model["GetImageUrl"](since theModelproperty is set to the current document in Razor, though you could also useDocumentinstead). We generally don't access document metadata using the raw indexer though, instead it's often easier to access via one of the specialGet...type conv…