How to get the un-rendered content of a post?

[yimingtang]

Hi, I'm using Jekyll 2.0.3.

I want to get the un-rendered excerpt or content of a post. After a little investigation, I found that the values of content and excerpt are rendered HTML content. However, this reference says they are un-rendered content.

I'm so confused. Is it outdated?

[parkr]

content should contain your unrendered content. Are you seeing the rendered content there?

[yimingtang]

Yes, the rendered content. I use markdown files as my posts. Here is my code snippet.

{% for post in paginator.posts %}
  <article class="post">
    <header>{{ post.title }}</header>
    <section class="post-content">
      {{ post.content }}
    </section>
  </article>
{% endfor %}

The result of post.content is rendered content. Am I doing it wrong?

[omegahm]

I can confirm that when using either site.posts or paginator.posts the post.content is indeed already rendered, however, when inside the post layout, page.content yields the unrendered version, while content is still rendered.

Jekyll 1.5.1

[budparr]

I'm not sure if I'm understanding what you want, but if you want post.content converted from markdown you have to use a filter {{ post.content | markdownify }}

[yimingtang]

@budparr Actually, post.content is in HTML format, but it should be markdown format according to the docs. So you don't have to call markdownify.

[yimingtang]

@omegahm Yes. The behavior is really strange.

[budparr]

Ah, I see. You said you were using md files, not html files.

[parkr]

• content ought to be the rendered content (no layout)
• output ought to be the rendered content (with the layout(s))

[parkr]

But it works differently for pages vs. posts vs. documents. This is thorny.