diff --git a/docs/_quarto.yml b/docs/_quarto.yml
index 4307f9a5b..316fecd7b 100644
--- a/docs/_quarto.yml
+++ b/docs/_quarto.yml
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ quartodoc:
   render_interlinks: true
   renderer:
     style: markdown
+    desc_first: true
     table_style: description-list
   sections:
     - title: Table Creation
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bb43b2c1f..3b785cbd7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ dev = [
 dev-no-pandas = [
     "ruff==0.8.0",
     "jupyter",
-    "quartodoc>=0.11.0; python_version >= '3.9'",
+    "quartodoc @ git+https://github.com/rich-iannone/quartodoc.git@feat-place-description-at-top",
     "griffe==0.38.1",
     "polars",
     "pre-commit==2.15.0",