an R Markdown example of how to show table of contents

exampleSite/content/about.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: About Hugo XMin
 author: Yihui Xie
+toc: true
 ---
 
 **XMin** is the first Hugo theme I have designed. The original reason that I wrote it was I needed a minimal example of Hugo themes when I was writing the  [**blogdown**](https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown) book. Basically I wanted a simple theme that supports a navigation menu, a home page, other single pages, lists of pages, blog posts, categories, tags, and RSS. That is all. Nothing fancy. In terms of CSS and JavaScript, I really want to keep them minimal. In fact, this theme does not contain any JavaScript code at all, although on this example website I did introduce some JavaScript code (still relatively simple anyway). The theme does not contain any images, either, and is pretty much a plain-text theme.

exampleSite/content/post/2017-06-22-rmd-toc.Rmd

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: Show Table of Contents for R Markdown Posts
+date: '2017-06-22'
+slug: rmd-toc
+output:
+  blogdown::html_page:
+    toc: true
+---
+
+# One Section
+
+A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.
+
+![quick fox](https://slides.yihui.name/gif/quick-fox.gif)
+
+# Another Section
+
+A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.
+
+## A subsection
+
+A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.
+
+## Another subsection
+
+A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.

exampleSite/content/post/2017-06-22-rmd-toc.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+---
+title: Show Table of Contents for R Markdown Posts
+date: '2017-06-22'
+slug: rmd-toc
+output:
+  blogdown::html_page:
+    toc: true
+---
+
+
+<div id="TOC">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#one-section">One Section</a></li>
+<li><a href="#another-section">Another Section</a><ul>
+<li><a href="#a-subsection">A subsection</a></li>
+<li><a href="#another-subsection">Another subsection</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<div id="one-section" class="section level1">
+<h1>One Section</h1>
+<p>A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.</p>
+<div class="figure">
+<img src="https://slides.yihui.name/gif/quick-fox.gif" alt="quick fox" />
+<p class="caption">quick fox</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="another-section" class="section level1">
+<h1>Another Section</h1>
+<p>A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.</p>
+<div id="a-subsection" class="section level2">
+<h2>A subsection</h2>
+<p>A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.</p>
+</div>
+<div id="another-subsection" class="section level2">
+<h2>Another subsection</h2>
+<p>A quick fox jumped over the lazy dog.</p>
+</div>
+</div>

layouts/_default/single.html

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 {{ if (gt .Params.date 0) }}<h2 class="date">{{ .Date.Format "2006/01/02" }}</h2>{{ end }}
 </div>
 
+{{ if .Params.toc }}
+{{ .TableOfContents }}
+{{ end }}
+
 <main>
 {{ .Content }}
 </main>

static/css/style.css

@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ hr {
   border-style: dashed;
   color: #ddd;
 }
+#TableOfContents, #TOC {
+  border: 1px solid #eee;
+  border-radius: 5px;
+}
 
 /* code */
 pre {