Layout variable in the frontmatter. How to read it?

#1

I never needed of this before, and I thought the Layout variable to be accessible in the current_page.data collection, but this is not the case.

Am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks

#2

Can you explain a bit more about what you are trying to do?

#3

Hey Tom,

In building the pages, the frontmatter has a property Layout that allow you to control which “template” you can use to rendere the page.

The property is passed directly to Middleman and in recalling something like current_page.data the Layout property is not there. Useless to say that a current_page.data.layout returns empty even if is valorised within a frontmatter like this

---
layout: 404page
cssLayout: about
title: SendPageTitle
sitemap: false
robots: noindex
---
#4

Yeah, I’m familiar with frontmatter, just trying to figure out why it’s not working. I’m seeing the same thing, apparently you can’t read from that property.

#5

Very annoying. Any idea?

#6

Just found this github issue that solves the problem.

current_page.options[:layout]

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