Documentation

Use this page as the map for the rest of the site.

Marque stays intentionally small:

Start here

New to Marque? Follow the setup path first, then come back for reference pages.

Learn where settings live, how page overrides work, and how themes and layouts fit together.

Browse CLI commands, directives, layouts, and themes once your site is running.

Start with Quickstart, then use Create Website to understand the scaffold you get from marque new.

Open Directives for layout primitives, inline syntax, and custom directive registration.

Install Marque and confirm the CLI works.

Scaffold a new project with marque new.

Run marque serve . and edit pages locally.

Set site-wide defaults in marque.toml.

Override page behavior with frontmatter.

Adjust layout, theme, and width page by page when needed.

Build pages from markdown plus directives.

Use summary.mq to control labels and navigation order.

Add custom directives or local themes when the starter setup is no longer enough.

Everything the terminal interface can do: new, serve, build, theme-template, and help.
Open CLI docs ->

Site defaults, page overrides, width behavior, and how settings flow through a project.
Open configuration docs ->

Visual style lives in themes; automatic page chrome lives in layouts.
Open theme docs ->
Open layout docs ->

Learn the built-ins, inline syntax, and how to register your own components in directives/*.js.
Open directive docs ->