Override Minima default.html

1

I am attempting to create my own copy of default.html from the Minima theme and have placed it in <mysite>/_includes but it is not being picked up. The default copy from Minima is still being used. How should I override this file?

2

The default.html is a layout file, so you’ll want to put your version in <mysite>/_layouts.

4

That is exactly what I did.

5

It turns out that the index.html file placed in _site by Jekyll is syntactically incorrect. This appears to have caused this problem although I do not understand how the original file came to be used in its’ place. Here is my override of default.html.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ page.lang | default: site.lang | default: "en" }}">

  {%- include head.html -%}

  <body>
    <div class:"wrapper">
      {%- include header.html -%}

      <main class="page-content" aria-label="Content">
        {{ content }}
        <p>ABC</p>  
      </main>
      <p>GHI</p>
      {%- include footer.html -%}
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

The generated index.html file is too large to add here. It is too badly scrambled to be edited manually with ease.

6

Doubt this is the issue, but this line isn’t valid HTML. It should be <div class="wrapper"> … an = instead of a :

8

I spotted and corrected this one, unfortunately it made no difference.

9

The only difference with the Jekyll default.html is that, in mine, the wrapper division wraps the entire body, rather than the contents only. The change is to get a better visual appearance only.