+++
title = "Zola Cookbook"
description = "Snippets I've developed that I want to keep"
date = 2022-04-27T18:00:00+00:00
updated = 2022-04-27T18:00:00+00:00
template = "docs/section.html"
sort_by = "weight"
weight = 5
draft = false
[taxonomies]
documentation=["Reference"]
categories=["Web Development", "Static Site Generation", "Zola"]
+++

[Zola](../zola) is the static site generator I use for most of my websites that
don't require much dynamic functionality.

## Generating Nested Lists from Data

Example data:

```html
{
  "definitions": [
    { "dt": "undefined", "dd": " the thing is undefined." },
    { "dt": "defined", "dd": " the thing is defined.", definitions: [
      { "dt": "truthy", "dd": "the defined thing is truthy" },
      { "dt": "falsy", "dd": "the defined thing is falsy" }
    ]}
  ]
}
```

Tera macro to render a nested list:

```
{% macro definition_body(source) %}
<dl>
  {% for entry in source %}
    <dt><kbd>{{ entry.dt | safe }}</kbd></dt>
    <dd>
      {{ entry.dd | safe }}
      {% if entry.definitions %}
        {{ self::definition_body(source=entry.definitions) }}
      {% endif %}
    </dd>
  {% endfor %}
</dl>
{% endmacro %}
```

Zola shortcode to import the macro template into Markdown and start the render:

```
{%- import 'macros/definition_body.html' as renderer -%}
<div>
  {% set content = load_data(path=source) %}
  {{ renderer::definition_body(source=content.definitions) }}
</div>
```

Invocation in Markdown file, providing the data source:

```
{ { definition_list(source="docs/zola/definitions.json") }}
```

