I love the [variables](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/variables.html#var) feature and am using it all over my websites. I'm getting it to work in some parts of the `_quarto.yml` file, but not all. 

For example, I am using `repo` in my `_variables.yml` file stores the url to a Github repo. In the footer, I can use `{{< var repo >}}` and it replaces `{{< var repo >}}` with the url, but it won't render if I put it in the navbar like this:

```r
      - icon: github
        href: "{{< var repo >}}"
```

I just get the text `{{< var repo >}}` instead of the replaced text.
dragonstyle
2022-07-26T19:57:05Z
jhelvy
bug
v1.3
closed
project level `_variables.yml` not rendering in navbar
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1627