📓 docs/layout.md by @matthieuG ☆

| | Desktop (width > 1200px) |

⥅ [[800]]

| | Tablet (800px < width < 1200px) |

⥅ [[800]]

| | Mobile (width < 800px) |

⥅ [[800]]

[!note] There are two additional layout fields that are not shown in the above diagram.

head is a single component that renders the <head> tag in the HTML. This doesn’t appear visually on the page and is only is responsible for metadata about the document like the tab title, scripts, and styles.

header is a set of components that are laid out horizontally and appears before the beforeBody section. This enables you to replicate the old Quartz 3 header bar where the title, search bar, and dark mode toggle. By default, Quartz 4 doesn’t place any components in the header.

Quartz components, like plugins, can take in additional properties as configuration options. If you’re familiar with React terminology, you can think of them as Higher-order Components.

See a list of all the components for all available components along with their configuration options. Additionally, Quartz provides several built-in higher-order components for layout composition - see [[layout-components]] for more details.

You can also checkout the guide on [[creating components]] if you’re interested in further customizing the behaviour of Quartz.

Layout breakpoints

Quartz has different layouts depending on the width the screen viewing the website.

The breakpoints for layouts can be configured in variables.scss.

mobile: screen width below this size will use mobile layout.
desktop: screen width above this size will use desktop layout.
Screen width between mobile and desktop width will use the tablet layout.

$breakpoints: (
  mobile: 800px,
  desktop: 1200px,
);

Style

Most meaningful style changes like colour scheme and font can be done simply through the [[general configuration]] options. However, if you’d like to make more involved style changes, you can do this by writing your own styles. Quartz 4, like Quartz 3, uses Sass for styling.

You can see the base style sheet in quartz/styles/base.scss and write your own in quartz/styles/custom.scss.

[!note] Some components may provide their own styling as well! For example, quartz/components/Darkmode.tsx imports styles from quartz/components/styles/darkmode.scss. If you’d like to customize styling for a specific component, double check the component definition to see how its styles are defined.