header label in doxygen markdown page makes header title disappear

Question

I notice a strange problem with doxygen 1.8.2. Including a header label causes the header title to disappear from the output html.

With the following markdown file:

Answer 1

I'm using Doxygen 1.8.14 and I had the same issue. I want to share how I solve it.

As suggested in http://svenax.net/site/2013/07/creating-user-documentation-with-doxygen/ I set USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE = mainpage.md, and also made sure to label all sections and subsections.

As mentioned by Lester Burnham the document needs two level 1 headers. However to make it works the first one with the "=========" style and the second with the "#" style. Like this:

My main page    {#mainpage}
============


# Introduction  {#intro}
Text.....


## A sub section    {#subsection1}
Text... and a reference to the [Introduction](#intro).

With this my Doxygen main page is working fine. All headers appearing and the references working. Hope it helps! =)

Answer 2

I was having trouble controlling the title of my Markdown pages in Doxygen; I ended up using the actual Doxygen @page command:

@page pageLabel This is my page's title

This allows me to reference the page using @ref pageLabel, and in my Pages section it shows up as "This is my page's title".

This was especially useful for me because I want my titles to have spaces, which isn't possible of Doxygen uses the file name as the title.

Answer 3

After some investigation, I have decided this appears to be a bug, but only because it is slightly counter-intuitive.

Consider the following:

The Main Section {#the_main_section}
================

Subsection One {#first}
--------------

Something highly interesting...

The document starts with a level 1 header (as described here) and so Doxygen parses "The Main Section" as the name and title of the page. The header and the label {#the_main_section} appear to be disregarded once the header has been converted into a page name.

The processing then moves on to the rest of the document and When it reaches "Subsection One", it believes that there is no parent "Section" for the "subsection" (as the "Section" was converted to a page name) and this is where it chokes.

More specifically, it discards the subsection (header) as it believes there is no parent "section". All other text remains, but is treated as part of the "page" (with no section parent).

The "fix" is to add another "level 1 header" after the initial "level 1 header" e.g.

My Great Documentation (Which Becomes the Page Name)
====================================================

The First Section
=================

Q. What? I already created a level 1 heading?
A. Yup, but that was converted to a page name/title and discarded, so now
   we have to create another level 1 heading for my first section. Don't
   be fooled into thinking that the opening heading in this document is
   still treated as an opening heading by Doxygen - it's not!

Answer 4

Same issue in the version 1.8.9.1. You can avoid it by using # tags instead of --- .

For example:

[TOC]

Page Title {#pageTitle}
==========
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

# section 1 {#section1}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

## Section 1.1 {#section1-1}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

# section 2 {#section2}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

# section 3 {#section3}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

## section 3.1 {#section3-1}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

# section 4 {#section4}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

will work. You can even put the [TOC] tag below the page Title definition to remove it from the table of content.