title: _hidden
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summary: Controls if the page should be built or not.
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type: sysfield
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body:

This field controls if Lektor should process the page into a build artifact.
By default, each page is built into a build artifact (HTML page) and each
attachment is copied to the output directory.
This can be prevented for a particular page or attachment by setting its `_hidden` to `yes`.

If an explicit value for the `_hidden` field is not set, the value of the `hidden` option in the
[child configuration] — or, for attachments, [attachment configuration] — section
of the parent's datamodel is checked.
If that, too, is not set, then pages, but not attachments, inherit the hidden status of their parent —
that is, by default, children of hidden pages will not be built, though attachments of hidden pages will.

[child configuration]: https://www.getlektor.com/docs/models/children/#child-configuration (The [children] section of the datamodel)
[attachment configuration]: https://www.getlektor.com/docs/models/attachments/ (The [attachments] section of the datamodel)

This is useful for more advanced setups like [Single Page Applications
:ref](../../../../guides/single-page/).

Hidden pages are automatically also removed from the `.children` property
of records but stay available for querying via the pad.