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Hugo provides multiple built-in shortcodes for author convenience and to keep your markdown content clean.

Hugo uses Markdown for its simple content format. However, there are a lot of things that Markdown doesn’t support well. You could use pure HTML to expand possibilities.

But this happens to be a bad idea. Everyone uses Markdown because it’s pure and simple to read even non-rendered. You should avoid HTML to keep it as simple as possible.

To avoid this limitations, Hugo created shortcodes. A shortcode is a simple snippet that can generate reasonable HTML code and conforms to Markdown's design philosophy.

Hugo ships with a set of predefined shortcodes that represent very common usage. These shortcodes are provided for author convenience and to keep your markdown content clean.

1 figure

Documentation of figure

Example figure input:

{{</* figure src="/images/lighthouse.jpg" title="Lighthouse (figure)" */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< figure src="/images/lighthouse.jpg" title="Lighthouse (figure)" >}}

The HTML looks like this:

<figure>
    <img src="/images/lighthouse.jpg"/>
    <figcaption>
        <h4>Lighthouse (figure)</h4>
    </figcaption>
</figure>

2 gist

Documentation of gist

Example gist input:

{{</* gist spf13 7896402 */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< gist spf13 7896402 >}}

The HTML looks like this:

<script type="application/javascript" src="https://gist.github.com/spf13/7896402.js"></script>

3 highlight

Documentation of highlight

Example highlight input:

{{</* highlight go */>}}
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")
}
{{</* /highlight */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< highlight go >}} package main

import "fmt"

func main() { fmt.Println("Hello, 世界") } {{< /highlight >}}

4 instagram

Documentation of instagram

Example instagram input:

{{</* instagram CxOWiQNP2MO */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< instagram CxOWiQNP2MO >}}

5 param

Documentation of param

Example param input:

{{</* param description */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< param description >}}

6 x

Documentation of x

Example x input:

{{</* x user=GoHugoIO id=917359331535966209 */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< x user=GoHugoIO id=917359331535966209 >}}

7 vimeo

Documentation of vimeo

Example vimeo input:

{{</* vimeo 146022717 */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< vimeo 146022717 >}}

8 youtube

Documentation of youtube

Example youtube input:

{{</* youtube w7Ft2ymGmfc */>}}

The rendered output looks like this:

{{< youtube w7Ft2ymGmfc >}}

9 ref and relref

Documentation of ref and relref