HTML Metadata with Markdown

You can set some useful Web metadata using Markdown front matter. Front matter are essentially headers; key/value pairs at the top of Markdown files inside specific delimiters. On this page, it looks like this:

---
description: How to set HTML metadata using Markdown front matter
lang: en-US
title: HTML Metadata using Markdown front matter - jot.run
---

Jot supports the following metadata keys.

`author`

The document author's name, used for the HTML meta tag of type author.

`description`

A summary of the document, used for the HTML meta tag of type description.

`exclude`

A true or false value telling Jot to exclude this site from discovery. Discovery are pages or other features that help people find your site from the default site. This key only applies the index file.

`lang`

The BCP 47 language for the document, used for the <html> tag's lang attribute.

`title`

The value for the <title> HTML tag.