Linguist is not detecting HTML in my repository

[chasegalloway]

Linguist is failing to recognize HTML files in a repository of mine(well technically my organization's, but I still own it), despite the fact that there are very clearly .html files within the directory.

[lildude]

Got a link we can look at? We can't provide a precise explanation without seeing it in action.

You might want to also take a look at https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/docs/how-linguist-works.md for all the things Linguist ignores... it's possible your HMTL files are in one of the paths Linguist considers documentation.

[chasegalloway]

That was the problem. The name of the folder that I kept the html files in was named 'docs', which made Linguist consider the html files to be documentation. I changed the folder's name and that fixed the problem, thank you!

[lildude]

You can also keep the folder named docs and implement an override, this one specifically: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/docs/overrides.md#documentation

[chasegalloway]

Thank you, I have done that and everything is working properly.