How to add Table Of Content (TOC) in blogger

This step by step guide on how to add a table of content in Blogger. Before adding this to your blog you should know some benefits of having a table of content (TOC) in Blogger blog post.

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SEO Benefits of Table Of Content (TOC)

Google always loves well detailed and well-structured blog posts and pages. And by adding a table of content in Blogger blog posts, you make your blog post well structured and user-friendly. add a table of content in blogger to get a better result.

And if you add a TOC in your blog post, it will be structured and reader-friendly. Google may display jump to links in the Search Result Page, it’s very beneficial for webmasters and it can increase your CTR.

Improves User Experience

According to research by NN Group, more than 79% of total web readers are scanners who only read the important points of a webpage. We also love to read well-detailed articles.

User experience is a very important thing to get higher ranking in SERP (Search Result Page). User experience is a very important part of a blog to rank faster. And a table of content will help you to improve the user experience of your blog.

Adding a TOC in Blogger will allow the readers to jump to the important parts of a blog post. It will be easy for a reader to understand the content.

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Please remember to backup your theme before you change any code so that in case of anything you can easily restore and get back everything to normal.

How to add table of contents in blogger?

1. Log into your Blogger

2.Select "Template or Theme" and click on "Three Dots" then Click on "EDIT HTML".

3. Now search for the </head> and paste the below script just above the </head> tag.

<script type='text/javascript'>              
//<![CDATA[           
//*************TOC plugin           
function mbtTOC() {var mbtTOC=i=headlength=gethead=0;           
headlength = document.getElementById("post-toc").getElementsByTagName("h2").length;for (i = 0; i < headlength; i++)           
{gethead = document.getElementById("post-toc").getElementsByTagName("h2")[i].textContent;document.getElementById("post-toc").getElementsByTagName("h2")[i].setAttribute("id", "point"+i);mbtTOC = "<li><a href='#point"+i+"'>"+gethead+"</a></li>";document.getElementById("mbtTOC").innerHTML += mbtTOC;}}function mbtToggle() {var mbt = document.getElementById('mbtTOC');if (mbt .style.display === 'none') {mbt .style.display = 'block';} else {mbt .style.display = 'none';}}           
//]]>              
</script>

4. Now search ]]></b:skin> and paste the following CSS code just above ]]></b:skin> line.

.mbtTOC{border:5px solid #f7f0b8;box-shadow:1px 1px 0 #EDE396;background-color:#FFFFE0;color:#707037;line-height:1.4em;margin:30px auto;padding:20px 30px 20px 10px;font-family:oswald,arial;display:block;width:70%}.mbtTOC ol,.mbtTOC ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mbtTOC ul{list-style:none}.mbtTOC ol li,.mbtTOC ul li{padding:15px 0 0;margin:0 0 0 30px;font-size:15px}.mbtTOC a{color:#0080ff;text-decoration:none}.mbtTOC a:hover{text-decoration:underline}.mbtTOC button{background:#FFFFE0;font-family:oswald,arial;font-size:20px;position:relative;outline:none;cursor:pointer;border:none;color:#707037;padding:0 0 0 15px}.mbtTOC button:after{content:"\f0dc";font-family:FontAwesome;position:relative;left:10px;font-size:20px}

5. Lastly search for the <data:post.body/> , there can be more than 1 <data:post.body/> tag , Replace all of them with below code.

 <div id="post-toc"><data:post.body/></div>

6. The coding part ends here, Click on "SAVE" and you are all done!

How to show TOC in blog post?

In order to activate TOC in your Blog post or article, while writing a new post switch to "HTML" mode and then paste the below code just after the first paragraph or before your first heading tag.

<div class="mbtTOC"> 
    <button onclick="mbtToggle()">Contents</button> 
    <ol id="mbtTOC"></ol> 
    </div>

Activating TOC in blog post

To active the TOC plugin paste the below Javascript code after the end of your post.

Hit the Publish Button and Boom! TOC has been generated successfully

<script>mbtTOC();</script>If you want to change the colour of any elements, then you can easily change it in simple steps. Find the default style and colour of these all code and you can change as per your choice. You can Change Font, Font Colour and Font Style.
Change background color #FFFFEO
Change font
Change border color #f7f0b8
Change font color #707037
Change Anchor link color #0080FF
Change the font size of anchor Links 15px
Change the font size of TOC heading text 20px
Know HTML code of colour here https://htmlcolorcodes.com/

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