Pagination

Sequential prev/next links for ordered reading flows — tutorials, ordered docs, recipes. Where breadcrumb shows hierarchy and nav shows the broader index, pagination covers the "next page" affordance for a reader moving through pages in order.

Basic usage

Place {% pagination auto=true /%} in a _layout.md and every page in the cascade gets prev / next links derived from the active sidebar nav order. No per-page authoring needed.

{% region name="pagination" %}
{% pagination auto=true /%}
{% /region %}

The first page in the sequence gets no prev link; the last gets no next link. The wrapping nav still renders so theme spacing stays consistent.

Explicit prev / next

When a page belongs to a sequence different from its directory siblings (a curated tutorial path, for instance), set prev and next explicitly:

{% pagination prev="install" next="configuration" /%}

Each value accepts either a slug (resolved through the registry) or an absolute URL. The link label defaults to the target page's title frontmatter — override per-side with prev-label and next-label if needed.

Ordering

In auto mode, sibling order is determined by, in priority:

1. Explicit nav order. If a nav rune anywhere in the active layout cascade lists the current page among its items, that's the canonical reading order. Sidebar order automatically is the reading order — authors don't restate it.
2. Frontmatter order field. Numeric, ascending. Pages without order sort to the end.
3. Directory order. Alphabetical by URL slug. Numeric prefixes work (01-intro before 02-install).

The first source that produces a definite position wins.

scope

By default, auto-mode picks from the page's direct siblings — pages sharing the same parent URL. For tutorials that span nested subdirectories that should still be read in sequence, widen the candidate set with scope="section":

{% pagination auto=true scope="section" /%}

scope="section" includes every page under the current top-level section (any page whose URL starts with the section root).

Boundaries

There's no wrap-around. The first page in a sequence has no prev link; the last has no next link. The wrapping <nav> still renders in both cases so vertical spacing stays consistent.

When the current page is a section index (it has child pages), auto mode renders nothing — child cards or a sidebar do that job better than prev/next at the section root.

Attributes

Universal attributes