# Why front matter is always in yaml (I have metaDataFormat = "toml")?

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**Created:** [December 31, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/why-front-matter-is-always-in-yaml-i-have-metadataformat-toml/9775 "2017-12-31T15:59:45Z")\
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@bep is it normal for an empy site with `metaDataFormat = "toml"` to have alwasy new content frontmatter in yaml?

What’s the meaning of `metaDataFormat` option?

Thank you

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