Introduction

This Jekyll theme provides a simple way to generate pages with the W3C style. That Jekyll theme and the W3C Design System should only be used for content served under a w3.org URI such as the main W3C website.

Installation

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed:

Ruby
Bundler

On Ubuntu (24.04 LTS):

sudo apt install ruby-dev ruby-bundler
# Set the path to your bundler data
mkdir ~/.bundler
bundle config path ~/.bundler

On MacOS:

brew install chruby ruby-install
ruby-install ruby 3.2.3
# Update your bash profile to use this version of Ruby
echo "source $(brew --prefix)/opt/chruby/share/chruby/chruby.sh" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "source $(brew --prefix)/opt/chruby/share/chruby/auto.sh" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "chruby ruby-3.2.3" >> ~/.bash_profile

Theme Installation

Specify your Jekyll dependencies (optional)

Create the file Gemfile at the root of your project. You may skip this step if you don't need the Jekyll plugins listed below but you will have to specify the jekyll-remote-theme plugin in your _config.yml file (see the Jekyll configuration section):
```
source "https://rubygems.org"
gem "jekyll", "~> 4.1.0"

group :jekyll_plugins do
    gem 'jekyll-commonmark' # adds additional markup features such as dl/dt/dd, allowing custom ids, etc
    gem 'jekyll-remote-theme'
    gem 'webrick'
end
```
You may also add addition plugins such as jekyll-relative-links to help convert relative links or jekyll-toc to generate a "Table of content".

Jekyll configuration

Add the following lines to your _config.yml:

remote_theme: w3c/w3c-jekyll-theme
plugins:
- jekyll-remote-theme # plugin only needed if you skipped the jekyll dependencies section

Run Jekyll

If you have more ruby dependencies and rely on bundler, you can execute jekyll with:
```
bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve
```
Otherwise, you can simply run:
```
jekyll serve
```
Open your browser and go to https://localhost:4000 to see your new site.

Configuration

Site Settings

Edit the _config.yml file to change your site settings:

remote_theme: w3c/w3c-jekyll-theme
title: Your Site Title
description: A brief description of your site
baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
member_only: true # if set to true, the pages will display a member-only banner
defaults:
  -
    scope:
      path: "" # an empty string here means all files in the project
    values:
      layout: "default" # by default, use the default layout from the theme
exclude: ["README.md", "**/README.md"]  # list the files that shouldn't be converted

Page Settings

For each page, you need to specify their layout (default or basic) and title.

---
layout: default
title: "This is the page title"
---

Navigation

You will need to specify where the website will be located and provide a list of pages that will appear in the navigation menu.

For instance, if the website is located under https://www.w3.org/jekyll/theme/, then create the following YAML file _data/subpath.yml to help generate the breadcrumb:

path:
  - title: Home
    url: /
  - title: Jekyll
    url: /jekyll/
  - title: W3C Theme
    url: /theme/

For the navigation menu, create the YAML file _data/navigation.yml, e.g.:

pages:
  - title: W3C Jekyll theme
    url: /jekyll/theme/
    html: /
  - title: About
    url: /jekyll/theme/about/
    html: /about/
  - title: Blog
    url: /jekyll/theme/blog/
    html: /blog/
  - title: Contact
    url: /jekyll/theme/contact/
    html: /contact/

Additional sub-menus

The default layout offers to possibility to add additional menus below the navigation. All you need to do is to add the corresponding YAML file under the _data directory of your project with the name submenu-@menuid.yml where @menuid is the menu identifier, e.g.:

title: another menu
pages:
- title: foo
  url: /foo/
  html: /foo/
- title: bar
  url: https://www.example.org/

Then, you just need to add the following submenu property in your page, e.g.

title: this is a jekyll page
submenu: [@menuid]

Note that submenu accepts multiple ids to display different menus.

Table of content

It is possible to automatically generate the table of contents on a page, using the jekyll-toc plugin. You first need to declare the dependency in the Gemfile

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "jekyll", "~> 4.1.0"

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'jekyll-remote-theme'
  gem 'jekyll-toc'
  gem 'webrick'
end

and install it by running bundle install.

Once it's done, you can enable it in the _config.yml:

toc:
  max_level: 3 # edit the level depending on your needs

Finally, add toc: true to the page properties of the page you want to add the table of contents on.

Design system components

A few components from the design system are available with this theme. Examples on these components can be found here.

Deployment

GitHub Pages

There are two ways to deploy on GitHub pages depending on whether your site rely on specific Jekyll dependencies. By default, GitHub pages come with a bunch of Jekyll plugins. If you need other dependencies to be installed with bundler (e.g. jekyll-toc or jekyll-commonmark) you will have to use a GitHub action to generate and deploy the pages.

Without additional dependencies

Push your code to a new repository on GitHub.
Go to the repository settings.
Scroll down to the GitHub Pages section.
Select the branch you want to publish from (usually main).
Your site should be live at https://your-username.github.io/repository-name.

With additional dependencies

Push your code to a new repository on GitHub.
Go to the repository settings.
Scroll down to the GitHub Pages section.
Select "GitHub actions" as the source of your GitHub Pages

Create the following workflow in your repository, e.g. .github/workflows/jekyll-gh-pages.yml:

name: Deploy Jekyll with GitHub Pages dependencies preinstalled

on:
  # Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
  push:
    branches: ["main"]

# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  # Build job
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Setup Ruby
        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@086ffb1a2090c870a3f881cc91ea83aa4243d408 # v1.195.0
        with:
          ruby-version: '3.2.3' # Not needed with a .ruby-version file
          bundler-cache: true # runs 'bundle install' and caches installed gems automatically
      - name: Build with Jekyll
        # Outputs to the './_site' directory by default
        run: bundle exec jekyll build
        env:
          JEKYLL_ENV: production
      - name: Upload artifact
        id: github-pages
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: github-pages
          path: _site/

  # Deployment job
  deploy:
    needs: build
    permissions:
      pages: write
      id-token: write
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4

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