# Filename and page.title do not have the same capitalization

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**Created:** [January 24, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912 "2022-01-24T17:30:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/1 "2022-01-24T17:30:45Z")

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If I have pages named `CSS.md` or `Website Development.md`, Jekyll sets as `page.title` respectively `Css` and `Website development`. How can I tell Jekyll to respect the original capitalization of the filename, without having to set the specific title in each file front matter?

Thanks a lot!

Best,  
Tommi 🤯

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**Author:** ![BillRaymond](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/billraymond/32/5963_2.png) [@BillRaymond](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/BillRaymond)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/2 "2022-01-24T23:41:29Z")

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I did a little research into this, and I do not think you will get what you want out of the box. Perhaps someone else has some other ideas. I thought about using the permalink slugs, but I am unsure if that gets you much further than the approach I list here.

You can write Liquid code that gets the filename using `paths` and strip out the extraneous elements that are in the filename.

If you use any of these approaches, I recommend making the code reusable by putting it in a file located in your `_includes` folder. You can then import it into your layout(s) with the `{% include %}` tag.

If you are unfamiliar with using includes (which are super easy), here is a link to the docs:

> **[Includes](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/includes/)**
>
> The include tag allows you to include the content from another file stored in the \_includes folder:

## Display a list of all posts with the filename as the title

```auto
{%- assign posts = site.posts -%}
{% for post in posts %}
    {%- assign paths = post.relative_path | split: '/' | last | split: '.markdown' | first | split: '-' -%}
    {%- assign mytitle = "" -%}
    {% for path in paths offset: 3 %}
        {%- assign mytitle = mytitle | append: path | append: " " -%}
    {% endfor %}
    {% assign mytitle = mytitle | strip %}
    My title: {{mytitle}}
{% endfor %}

```

The first `assign posts` line creates an array of posts.

The `for post in posts` loop iterates through all the posts.

The `assign paths` code:

1. Gets the `relative_path` of the post
2. Assume the post’s `relative_path` looks like this: `_posts/2022-01-24-This-is-a-Test.markdown`. The `split` filters will create a new array that looks like this:

> 2022  
> 01  
> 24  
> This  
> is  
> a  
> Test

**Note** : You can add more filters, like `| split: '.md' | first` or just rename `.markdown` to `.md`. See the example with Pages later in this response to add more file types.

Since you build a new title from that array, the first `assign mytitle` line will create an empty string.

Since the first three rows of the array are the date elements, you do not want them in the final title. The `for` loop ignores those three rows of the array using the `offset` filter, so you only get the following values:

> This  
> is  
> a  
> Test

As the `for` loop iterates through the array, the second `assign mytitle` line will build a string that matches your filename, which displays based on the case sensitivity of whatever you typed. It also appends a space between each word.

The last `{% assign mytitle = mytitle | strip %}` removes any extra spaces in the title.

In my example, the final `mytitle` variable is:

> This is a Test

## Display a list of pages

Pages often include HTML files as well, so here is an example that lists all the pages on your site and uses `split` to not only remove `.markdown`, but `.html` from the title. You can add as many as you want, and that method will work in the example of the post I shared earlier in this response.

Here is the code:

```auto
{%- assign pages = site.pages -%}
{% for page in pages %}
    {%- assign mytitle = "" -%}
    {%- assign paths = page.path | split: '/' | last | split: '.markdown' | first | split: '.html' | first | split: '-' -%}
    {% for path in paths %}
        {%- assign mytitle = mytitle | append: path | append: " " -%}
    {% endfor %}
    {% assign mytitle = mytitle | strip %}
    My title: {{mytitle}}
{% endfor %}

```

## Display the title on a page

When displaying the title for a page, you can add a little extra code (again, I would put this code into the `_includes` folder and update the `layout` to import it.

```auto
{%- assign paths = page.path | split: '/' | last | split: '.markdown' | first | split: '.html' | first | split: '-' -%}
{% for path in paths %}
    {%- assign mytitle = mytitle | append: path | append: " " -%}
{% endfor %}
{% assign mytitle = mytitle | strip %}
My title: {{mytitle}}

```

Of course, you can modify that code for posts, just using `post.relative_path` instead of `page.path`.

Once again, I think this is probably the wrong thing to do because you are modifying the out-of-box functionality that Jekyll provides. It is a best practice to use the title in the YAML file.

I hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![pippim](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/pippim/32/4089_2.png) [@pippim](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/pippim)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/3 "2022-01-25T12:09:31Z")

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It sounds like you are looking for a new variable like:

{{ page.filename }}

This has been requested on [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6797644/how-to-create-a-liquid-tag-extension-which-return-filename-in-jekyll?rq=1) a decade ago.

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**Author:** ![BillRaymond](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/billraymond/32/5963_2.png) [@BillRaymond](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/BillRaymond)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/4 "2022-01-25T18:19:52Z")

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I do not think this is the correct solution based on the op’s original request. The request is to display the filename as the title, respect capitalization, and not use the YAML front matter.

The SO post you refer to shows how to get the filename into the YAML front matter, but it does not solve the problem of removing things like the filename extension.

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**Author:** ![pippim](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/pippim/32/4089_2.png) [@pippim](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/pippim)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/5 "2022-01-26T01:40:29Z")

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At the end of the day I think OP should simply put title into Front Matter like the rest of us. My intention was just to point out the issue came up a decade ago and there is still no easy solution.

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**Author:** ![BillRaymond](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/billraymond/32/5963_2.png) [@BillRaymond](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/BillRaymond)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/6 "2022-01-26T02:11:37Z")

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Understood. Thanks for the additional detail and I completely agree that it’s best to just type a title.

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/7 "2022-01-27T16:20:34Z")

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Thanks a lot for your replies, @BillRaymond and @pippim!

It is a pity that a simple task such as preserving capitalization (not even changing it, just keeping it the same!) does not work.

I will adapt and keep it as it is.

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**Author:** ![BillRaymond](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/billraymond/32/5963_2.png) [@BillRaymond](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/BillRaymond)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/filename-and-page-title-do-not-have-the-same-capitalization/6912/8 "2022-01-27T17:52:24Z")

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No problem. I think the way Jekyll treats file names is as a fallback plan if there’s no YAML front matter.