You can use a filter to generate programmatically the content of table-of-contents. Here is a proof of concept (to be improved if you want e.g. to take account of the header levels):

```
local toc_inlines = {}

local function feed_toc_inlines(header)
table.insert(toc_inlines,
pandoc.Span(pandoc.Link(header.content, '#' .. header.identifier)))
table.insert(toc_inlines, pandoc.RawInline('html', '\n'))
end

local function set_metadata(meta)
meta['table-of-contents'] = toc_inlines
return meta
end

return {
{ Header = feed_toc_inlines },
{ Meta = set_metadata }
}
```

However, I don't use HTML generation a lot—there may be a better way.


Le Tuesday 14 February 2023 à 05:20:59AM, Thomas Hodgson a écrit :
> The best solution I have found is to put this in my metadata:
>
> ```
> table-of-contents: <span>[Section one](#section-one)</span><span>[Section two]
> (#section-two)</span>
> ```
>
> Which works, but has to be updated by hand.
>
> On Sunday, 12 February 2023 at 15:16:48 UTC+1 Thomas Hodgson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering whether there's a way to change the HTML for a table of
> contents. In particular, I'm wondering whether I could have something like
> this, instead of a unordered list:
>
> ```
> <nav>
> <span><a href="#section-one">Section one</a></span>
> <span><a href="#section-two">Section two</a></span>
> </nav>
> ```
>
>
> (I'm thinking about using <[1]https://readable-css.freedomtowrite.org/>, so
> I want the TOC to fit what will work with that.)
>
> Tom
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