Showing a Section's Title

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Is there a way to display a section’s title? I have a title in the _index.md file, but can’t figure a way to display it as what is returned is the title with underscores. ie: (my_section) whereas I would like “My Section” to show up.

I am showing this on a sidebar nav, where I would always like to have the section title shown at the top regardless of the child menu items being clicked, so am unable to call just {{ .Title }}.

New to Hugo, and can’t seem to figure this out.

<h4><a href="/{{ .Section }}">{{ .Section }}</a></h4>

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Please share your project code, or a sample project that reproduces the issue you’re having. That way we can look at it and clone it and assist ya. :slight_smile:

3

Oops- sorry, here is the full code :slight_smile:

{{ $thisSection := .Section }}
{{ if (index .Site.Menus $thisSection) }}

    <ul>
      {{ $currentPage := . }}
      <li>
      <h4><a href="/{{ .Section }}">{{ .Section }}</a></h4>
      </li>
        {{ range (index .Site.Menus $thisSection) }}
          {{ if .HasChildren }}
            <li class="{{ if $currentPage.IsMenuCurrent $thisSection . }}active{{ end }}">
              <a href="{{ .URL }}">
                {{ .Pre }}
                <span>{{ .Name }}</span>
              </a>
            </li>
              <ul class="list-reset">
                {{ range .Children }}
                  <li class="{{ if $currentPage.IsMenuCurrent $thisSection . }}active{{ end }}">
                    <a href="{{ .URL }}">{{ .Name }}</a>
                  </li>
                {{ end }}
              </ul>
            {{ else }}
              <li class="{{ if $currentPage.IsMenuCurrent $thisSection . }}active{{ end }}">
                <a href="{{ .URL }}">
                  {{ .Pre }}
                  <span>{{ .Name }}</span>
                </a>
              </li>
            {{ end }}
        {{ end }}
    </ul>
4

Try this. Might work as a good starter.

<ul>
  {{ range where .Site.Pages "Section" .Section }}
    <li>{{ .Title }}</li>
  {{ end }}
</ul>
5

Thanks for suggestion Leo_Merkel.

I ended up using this to show the Section title with correct formatting:
{{ .Section | humanize }}

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