Liquid outputs raw text and not markdown

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Hi, I have this liquid code: {%for page in site.pages%} {%if page.main%} [{{page.title}}]({{page.url}}) {%endif%} {%endfor%}but the output is not this Python Encryptor but this what i get
Could someone help me?

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Possibly the code isn’t in a Markdown file (.md, etc)? The Markdown link syntax would only be expanded in a Markdown file, not other formats (HTML, Text, etc).

3

Liquid is only parsed by Jekyll when the file has YAML front matter.
Add the following to the top of your .md, .html, .css, etc file.

---
# intentionally left blank
---

And as @chuckhoupt suggested, Markdown is only parsed in .md or .markdown files. If the extension is .html or something else it will spit it back out to you as originally written.

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The problem is it is an .markdown file and it has a YAML front matter.
I uploaded the site to github so you can look at is.

The page

code

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Great, thanks for the source code link. I think the problem is that the Markdown link is indented with tabs, which Markdown interprets as a code-block, so the link code is rendered as-is.

Below is a copy of your loop followed by output steps, with the tabs explicitly marked with ➡︎. By default, Liquid will leave all the white-space outside its tags, so the tabs will trigger a code-block:

{%for page in site.pages%}
➡︎	{%if page.main%}
➡︎	➡︎	[{{page.title}}]({{page.url}})
➡︎	{%endif%}
{%endfor%}

Intermediate Markdown output:

➡︎	
➡︎	➡︎	[Main Page Title](/main-page-url/)
➡︎

Final HTML output:

<pre>
<code>
➡︎	[Main Page Title](/main-page-url/)
</code>
</pre>

To fix this, you could simple remove the tabs (note that you can’t just replace them with spaces, because 4-spaces also marks a code-block). Alternatively, you could use Liquid’s white-space controls to strip the tabs. For example (untested code):

{% for page in site.pages %}
➡︎	{%- if page.main -%}
➡︎	➡︎	[{{page.title}}]({{page.url}})
➡︎	{%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}

That would generate the following intermediate Markdown with no tabs and a single newline after the link (assuming just 1 main page):

[Main Page Title](/main-page-url/)

Working with Liquid and Markdown is always a bit tricky because white-space is so significant in Markdown, and the intermediate Liquid-generated Markdown is hidden during the Jekyll compilation process.

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Ok, that is wierd. When I did

{% for page in site.pages %}
➡︎	{%- if page.main -%}
➡︎	➡︎	[{{page.title}}]({{page.url}})
➡︎	{%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}

It didn’t work, nothing was there. But when I did

{% for page in site.pages %}
➡︎	{%- if page.main -%}
[{{page.title}}]({{page.url}})
➡︎	{%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}

It worked!
Thanks, now I know whitespaces are a bigger deal in markdown than I thought.

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