Override html page template for a specific sphinx document

Question

I\'m implementing a documentation using Sphinx (https://github.com/fridge-project/dbal-docs) & would like to override the html page of a specific document. My interest i

Answer 1

One should be able to use a variable to define the template to extend from.

In that way it might be less of a 'hack'. And you have full control about the generated output(not only the body block).

layout.html:

{% extends meta.page_template|default('basic/page.html') %}

And in your index.rst you use then page-level metadata:

index.rst:

:page_template: custom/index.html