--- title: Frontmatter description: Learn about configuring your documentation pages with frontmatter. --- Frontmatter is a way to customize metadata of a page directly within your Markdown files. The metadata properties can be added to Markdown pages by adding frontmatter blocks to the top of any page. ```text title=Example Frontmatter --- title: Welcome to Awesome Project description: Some awesome docs! --- # Welcome! ``` Frontmatter overrides any default properties set in the [project configuration file](/configuration). This allows you to customize each page with unique metadata. ## Properties Below is a list of all available frontmatter properties, their type and default values. The title of the page used in metadata, and social cards and as a page heading title. --- The description of the page used in metadata. --- An [Asset URL](/assets) to an image used in social cards and shown at the top of the page if `showPageImage` is `true`. --- A URL to redirect to when the page is visited. Setting this value overrides the page content. --- Whether to show the `title` as a heading title at the top of the page. --- Whether to show the `image` at the top of the page. --- If true, the page will be excluded from search engines. --- A path which if set, will show a link to the previous page at the bottom of the page. Use with `previousTitle`: ``` --- previous: /getting-started previousTitle: Getting started --- ``` --- A path which if set, will show a link to the next page at the bottom of the page. Use with `nextTitle`: ``` --- next: /getting-started nextTitle: Getting started --- ```