quarto rendering files marked as drafts

[ajinkya-k]

Description

I want to exclude some quarto files from my github pages, so I added draft: true to the specific page, but it still shows up in _site folder and has all the content in it. I then tried adding it to website.drafts in the _quarto.yml file but i still get the same result. Is it possible to not generate the file at all?

Quarto version: 1.7.23
Operating System: macOS 15.4.1

[mcanouil]

Please read the documentation of this option: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-drafts.html
Everything is in there.
If something is not clear, please reference what is not from the documentation.

[ajinkya-k]

So I tried all the methods mentioned there. None of them worked. The file was still rendered and an html render available in _site. I also checked that the html file had all the contents in it and it wasnt just an empty file. For what its worth, the file is a reveal js slidedeck

[mcanouil]

If none of the documented draft mode does what you want why use it?
Have you looked at Render targets?

[ajinkya-k]

@mcanouil you may be right that I need render targets.

That being said, I think the fact that the page with draft: true is still being rendered in full and not empty (as suggested in the website drafts documentation) does show that something is wrong at least when using drafts with format: reveal-js. I could be wrong of course

[mcanouil]

Please provide a small and simple reproducible example.

[ajinkya-k]

Yup, working on it