How to include file with html in a post written in markdown

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I am new here. Tried jekyll for a few days and then started considering Hugo. So far I like it.

For now, I am trying to replicate something I did before (in Jekyll) but it’s seems I don’t understand how to do it in Hugo.

In Jekyll, I was able to accomplish that using:

{% include {{ filename | prepend:site.baseurl }} %} where filename points to the html file.

Basically, I want to include (import, insert) a html file from a directory under the partials directory. This table is better included as a file because it is a large table and I have another program that runs and writes out the html file when I need to update the table. This html file is not a template file but rather a fully specified html file (table) that does not need any processing but rather just copying and pasting in my post.md file.

So far, I did:
{{ partial “post/somepath/table.html” .}} inside the markdown but this does not seem to include the table in the post and that particular command bleeds through to my post. I tried added the % symbol but that didn’t work too.

Please post suggestions on how to accomplish this or kindly point me to an answer somewhere elsewhere.

Thanks,

Jay

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The next release of Hugo (v0.16) will include a readFile template function.

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Also see shortcodes.

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Thanks. Any idea when that will be out.

In the mean time, please can you let me know to accomplishing this: I am trying to get something to just copy the html file and paste it into the *.md (for post) file.

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This is advanced usage, so be prepared. You can’t use template functions directly within markdown. You have to use shortcodes as a gateway. So, say you have a partial template in layouts/partials/somepath/table.html. You could do something like this:

{{< importPartial "somepath/table.html" >}}

Create a shortcode as layouts/shortcodes/importPartial.html that does something like this:

{{ partial (.Get 0) .Page }}

I haven’t tested that, but it may get you close to a solution.

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Thanks @moorereason.

Your suggestion worked and my html table came through in the post. I will have to read up more on shortcodes to understand it better but for now, I will use your solution for my importing needs.

If you don’t mind me asking, are you a superuser or one of the developers. I just started using Hugo since yesterday and getting past this was important for me.

Thanks once again.