--- title: "Sub-pages and access inheritance" description: "Nest pages inside pages. A sub-page lives with its parent and follows who can read it, until you set its own access." canonical_url: https://docs.markdrop.in/pages/sub-pages last_updated: 2026-11-03 prerequisites: [/pages/overview] site: "Markdrop Docs" index: https://docs.markdrop.in/llms.txt --- # Sub-pages and access inheritance A page can hold other pages. Sub-pages show at the bottom of their parent under **Pages inside**, in the page tree beside the page, and under the folder in your workspace's sidebar. ## Add a sub-page - At the bottom of a page, choose **Add a sub-page**, pick a template and choose **Create page**. - In the page, type `/page`: Markdrop makes an empty sub-page and puts a link to it where you typed. You need to be signed in and able to edit the parent. A sub-page lives in its parent's workspace and folder. Breadcrumbs at the top of the page lead back up through its parents. ## Who can read a sub-page A new sub-page **inherits** its parent's access: whoever can read the parent can read the sub-page, and nobody else. That includes the parent's password, its workspace, the people it's shared with and its sign-in requirement. When you change the parent's access, its sub-pages follow at once, and anyone who loses access loses it on the sub-pages too. Set a sub-page's own access from its **Share** dialog. From then on it keeps that access whatever happens to the parent. In **Pages inside** such a page is marked **Own access**. Breadcrumbs only show the parents a reader can open. ## On your own domain On a workspace's [custom domain](https://docs.markdrop.in/workspaces/custom-domain), a sub-page's address includes its parents: `docs.acme.com///`. The markdrop.in link stays `markdrop.in/`. ## Move a page You need to be signed in and able to edit both the page and the page you move it into. Its sub-pages move with it. ### Drag it in the page tree The page tree beside a page lists the pages around it. Drag a page: - **onto another page** (the row lights up) to put it inside, as that page's last sub-page; - **between two pages** (a line shows where) to put it there, beside them; - **below the last page in a branch**: move the pointer left to go up a level, as far as the top level. Rest the pointer on a closed page for a moment and it opens, so you can drop into its sub-pages. A page can't go inside itself or one of its own sub-pages. Press **Esc** to cancel a drag. The page shows in its new place at once. If Markdrop can't move it, it goes back and a message says why. **Undo** in the message moves it back. In your workspace's sidebar, drag a page onto another page to put it inside, or onto a folder to move it to the top level of that folder. ### Move to Without dragging (or from the keyboard), choose **Move to…** from the page's **⋯** menu, or from the **⋯** next to a page in the page tree. Search, then pick: - **Top level of** its folder (for a sub-page): it leaves its parent. - A **folder** of the workspace, or the workspace's top level. - A **page** you can edit in the same workspace. Personal pages list your own documents outside workspaces. Use the arrow keys and **Enter** to choose. The breadcrumbs and the page tree follow the move. Pages move within their workspace (or among your personal pages). To file a page in another workspace, move its top page. ### When a move changes who can read it A sub-page follows its parent's access, so moving a page can change who can read it. Markdrop asks first, for example: "Moving “Benefits” changes who can read it: now members of Acme; after the move, only its owner." Choose **Move anyway** or **Cancel**. Only the page's owner can make a move that changes who can read it. A page with its own access keeps it wherever it goes. AI apps move pages with `move_page`, and confirm the same way. ## Delete a page with sub-pages When you delete a page that has sub-pages, Markdrop asks what to do with them: - **Keep them: move them up a level**. Each sub-page takes the deleted page's place under its parent. - **Delete the sub-pages too**. ## Related - [Who can open what](https://docs.markdrop.in/sharing/who-can-open) - [Folders](https://docs.markdrop.in/workspaces/folders)