In addition to the children property defining lower pages in the site structure, they can also be used to define inline sections within the current document. Inclusion in this way produces a menu link to an anchor in the current page.
Below is an example from /guide/ops/persistence/index.md{:target=“_blank”}:
{% highlight yaml %} children:
Inline sections can also be detected from separate, child .md files. Including the tag check_directory_for_children: true in the YAML front matter of a page causes the site structure plug-in to look through the current directory for any .md files containing section_type: inline in the YAML front matter.
The content from these inline sections can then be included in the page content using the liquid tag child_content. This is shown below in an example from /guide/ops/locations/index.md{:target=“_blank”}: