Page disappears from menu when changed from .md to .html

support
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I am building a site where the only consistent items are the header and footer. As a result, I need to write a lot of custom HTML for each page and the Markdown language is getting in the way of my coding style and environment

I would like to change the content file type from markdown to HTML. I have tried changing an existing file’s extension from .md to .html and the page content works as expected. The issue I am having is the page is no longer included in the main menu.

Questions:

  • Is this possible
  • Should I expect HUGO to treat html files and their frontmatter the same as it does markdown files?
  • Does frontmatter in an html file need to be written in a specific language (yaml, toml, json)
  • Do I need to make any changes to my config.yaml file?

Here is an example of the frontmatter I am using in both file types

---
title: "Contact Us"
date: 2021-11-23T21:18:08+11:00
draft: false
subtitle: My awesome sub title
menu:
main:
parent: support
weight: 10
---
2

The indentation on your YAML is wrong, or you need to edit your post.

3

Wow!

an hour or so of searching and it was so simple to fix.

My YAML got flattened by my HTML formatter. It should have looked like this.

---
title: "Contact Us"
date: 2021-11-23T21:18:08+11:00
draft: false
subtitle: My awesome sub title
menu:
  main:
    parent: support
    weight: 10
---

Thank you so much

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