How to use layout: default for all members of a collection?

[MichelleBlanchette]

When copying the collections example from the configuration documentation, I found my pages were not displayed with any theme styling or layout.

I then resolved this by putting layout: default in the document's frontmatter.

Is it possible to use the default layout for all members of the collection automatically, or do I need to specify that frontmatter on every single document? Seems silly if I do, considering it is the default layout, after all! 🤷

I tried adding that key to my collection's definition, but it didn't fix the issue:

# Define Jekyll collections
collections:
  docs:
    permalink: "/:collection/:path/"
    layout: default # this doesn't work..?
    output: true
# Define which collections are used in just-the-docs
just_the_docs:
  collections:
    docs:
      name: Documentation

Thanks for your help!

[pdmosses]

Front matter defaults are defined separately, see the Jekyll documentation. One needs to add something like:

defaults:
  -
    scope:
      path: ""
      type: "docs"
    values:
      layout: "default"

[MichelleBlanchette]

This is EXACTLY what I was failing to find! Thank you so much for the snippet and link @pdmosses 😄