How to create a new functionality page?

[chrillek]

A similar question has been asked about 24h ago:

Copy of 404.html page in themes/ananke/layouts does not generate any html file in public on build

Hi, new to Hugo so apologies if this is a silly question. I want to add a thank-you.html page to my ananke theme once someone has submitted a contact request. I added a new thank-you.html page alongside the 404.html page in themes/ananke/layouts/ but when I run hugo, the new file is not copied to public. This is true of any file I add there. But if I update the content of the 404.html file, it is updated in public. What am I missing, and what is the cleanest way to add this file? hugo v0.119…

And the answer given there is the same as the one @bootyocean18 gave you here: You need to separate content (Markdown) and template (HTML). Hugo will not simply “see” an HTML page somewhere that doesn’t fit its content model.