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  1. Elements App
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Frontmatter

Frontmatter is a common authoring convention, originally popularized by Jekyll that lets you add metadata to a page. It consists of a block of key-value pairs placed at the top of a Markdown file.

Elements supports the following frontmatter

  • title

  • date

  • image

  • tags

Title

Generally used for a post or page title.

title: "Hello World"

Date

In the following format, year-month-day.

date: "2025-03-17"

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