Hide a file

The hide and {hide-from-toc} metadata items let you hide content in different ways.

Hide from search engine indexing

If you set hide to true (or index: false, which does the same thing), the page is excluded from both external and internal search engines. When you turn on hide, the value of index is automatically set to false in the output file.

If you add hide: true to the TOC.md file, the entire guide is excluded from external and internal search engine results. The guide is then available only via its URL. This entire guide is hidden from internal and external search.

Hide from TOC

To prevent an article from appearing in the left nav, add {hide-from-toc} to the article link or section you want to hide in the TOC, not in the article.

The old V1 method to add hidefromtoc: true to the article no longer works and is ignored.

Syntax

+ [Overview](overview.md)
+ {hide-from-toc} [Beta features](beta-features.md)
+ [Release notes](current.md)
+ {hide-from-toc} Previous release notes {#previous-release-notes}
  + [2025 release notes](release-notes-2025.md)
  + [2024 release notes](release-notes-2024.md)
+ Get started {#get-started}
  + [Introduction to product](intro.md)
  + [Administration and configuration](admin-config.md)

In this example, beta-features.md and all articles in the previous release notes section are hidden from the TOC.