I was searching for a way to capitalize a title so that each word in the title starts with an uppercase character. This has been asked before, but I did not find a solution, just some passive agressive bug reports, hehe. ( https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/2455 ) Now: Hugo has upper which chang…

The default archetype is title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}" So does title not do what you want?

[image] zwbetz: So does title not do what you want? Woops. For some reasons I oversaw title. It does exactly what I want. (mumble… the function docs really need a secondary structure that sorts them into string functions, array functions, conditional functions, and so one… mumble…)

Personally I’d do it in CSS. [image] text-transform | CSS-Tricks The text-transform property in CSS controls text case and capitalization. .lowercase { text-transform: lowercase; } Text-Transform Values lowercase makes

[image] lpar: Personally I’d do it in CSS. Okay, I’ll bite. Why?

Am curious as well. Because even if you use text-transform: capitalize; It doesn’t give you title case.

Well, text-transform: capitalize; seems to give me what was asked for: I was searching for a way to capitalize a title so that each word in the title starts with an uppercase character. As to why I’d do it in CSS, various reasons. Firstly, so that I can keep the data in its natural format and n…

[image] Configure Hugo How to configure your Hugo site.

Fair enough @lpar . Even though “capitalize first letter of each word” and “title case” are slightly different :slight_smile: @bep TIL about that config option

The solution is strings.FirstUpper: strings.FirstUpper | Hugo

Capitalize a title

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lpar July 10, 2019, 1:21am 4

Personally I’d do it in CSS.

Humanize function turns random strings to uppercase

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Capitalize a title

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