Three dashes or a rendered horizontal table at the top of your GitHub markdown document? That’s YAML metadata
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22
Many Markdown documents on GitHub have three dashes (---) at the top (and rendered a horizontal table displays).
I didn’t know this markdown construct, and it appears to be GitHub specific: it is a way to render YAML metadata (for instance used while blogging).
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] three dashes table markdown – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents | The GitHub Blog.
Well, actually…
… I first found [Wayback/Archive] markdown – Using three hyphens in md files on github to create a table – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Koba and [Wayback/Archive] Oliver Matthews) which pointed to the above link.
--jeroen
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