How can I implement TOC like feature myself?

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Hi,

just started with hugo. read tutorials and wrote a small test project. very nice!

I found the TOC feature interesting and would like to understand how does it work and how can I write it myself. Lets say for just a second I want to implement something similar to TOC - lets say images. I would like to parse the markdown to all images and show a gallery of all images at the bottom of the page.

How would I implement such a thing? Thought maybe using shortcodes but does not seem suitable for this problem. please help.

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There is a tutorial using shortcodes for building a gallery in hugo with photoswipe.js over here:
http://www.thehome.dk/article/photoswipe-gallery-hugo/

You could probably modify it to suit your needs

As for parsing only images in your Table of Contents, the only way I can think of fetching them separately from the rest of the content is by defining a “featured image” variable on the front matter of each post. See this post for more:
http://discuss.gohugo.io/t/post-featured-image/864/4

Hope that helps.