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lastmod: 2015-01-27
date: 2013-07-09
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title: Table of Contents
---

Hugo will automatically parse the Markdown for your content and create
a Table of Contents you can use to guide readers to the sections within
your content.

## Usage

Simply create content like you normally would with the appropriate
headers.

Hugo will take this Markdown and create a table of contents stored in the
[content variable](/layout/variables/) `.TableOfContents`


## Template Example

This is example code of a [single.html template](/layout/content/).

    {{ partial "header.html" . }}
        <div id="toc" class="well col-md-4 col-sm-6">
        {{ .TableOfContents }}
        </div>
        <h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
        {{ .Content }}
    {{ partial "footer.html" . }}