Sometimes you want to draw your reader’s attention to an important piece of information. You can do this using admonitions. Below are a few examples of how to do this, and the various styles that are available in Elegant.

Set up

To use admonitions within our Markdown, we need to enable support for them first. In pelicanconfig.py find your MARKDOWN dictionary. Add the following line to the dictionary (and ensure the previous line ends with a comma so that the dictionary is valid).

'markdown.extensions.admonition': {},

That’s it! Now your site will support Markdown admonitions.

Types of admonitions

There are several styles available and Elegant supports the recommended values of:

• attention
• caution
• danger
• error
• hint
• important
• note
• tip
• warning

Examples

Let’s see some examples!

Default Danger, Error

You can use either danger or error to get a red admonition box.

!!! danger

    This is a danger or error admonition

Default Attention, Caution, Warning

An attention, caution or warning admonition will be yellow.

!!! warning

    This is an attention, caution or warning admonition

Default Important, Note

Use important or note to get a green admonition box.

!!! important

    This is an important or note admonition

Default Hint, Tip

Use either hint or tip to get a blue admonition box.

!!! hint

    This is a hint or tip admonition

Custom Titles

Admonitions can have custom titles. When the default examples are used, the titles of each box are the same as the admonition type. This isn’t always what you want. If you want to use a custom title, you pass the title in double quotes after the type of admonition you are utilizing.

!!! hint "Use double quotes to change the title"

    This admonition box contains a custom tile because I placed it in double quotes after the `hint`.

No title

There are times when you don’t need a title in your boxes. This can be done by passing an empty string ("") after the admonition type.

!!! important ""

    This box doesn't require a title, but is still an `important` admonition
    and will be highlighted as such.

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