Prevent left menu items from being collapsed

[layoaster]

According to this thread it seems that 'collapse_navigation': False doesn't behave as one would expect.

Is there any option to make items not collapsable on the navigation menu?

[Blendify]

So if I understand you correctly, you want to see the whole documentation structure open all the time?

[layoaster]

That's exactly what I meant @Blendify . All items expanded (by "all", I meant the ones allowed by navigation_depth)

[jantman]

This one is really confusing to me too... I've read through a bunch of the docs, and until I landed on this stackoverflow answer I'd been rebuilding my docs over and over in an attempt to get some combination of 'collapse_navigation': False and 'navigation_depth': 4 or 'navigation_depth': -1 to do what I thought it/they would do: show the entire toctree in the sidebar all the time...

I think this is both unclear from the docs, and a feature that I'd really like to see. Yeah, I'd also like to see the whole documentation structure open all the time, especially when I have some docs that are structured with only a few top-level headings, i.e.:

• Foo
  • Bar
  • Baz
  • Blam
• Lorem
  • ipsum
  • sit
  • dolor

[mahmoud]

Big +1 on this. Projects trend small. Power law and all that.

For smaller projects (e.g., hyperlink), an always-expanded TOC tree would be great. I'm trying some wild jQuery hacks to try and stop .toggleCurrent() from collapsing the other entries without forking the theme, but I'd really rather this were supported via html_theme_options :)

[vonpupp]

+1 Also. This would be awesome indeed!

Any guidance on how to achieve this? html_theme_options would be the way to go.

[Blendify]

This should be possible by changing our javascript. I doubt I will have time but I can look into this.

[jessetan]

This is currently not possible because the JS and CSS that expand menu items assume that only the active/current menu item is expanded.
Decoupling is tracked in #692. if that is approved and merged, this can be either JS or (even better) Python code that sets the .expanded class on all menu items.

[manjotpahwa]

+1 would love to see this!

[alexei-developer]

+1