Navigation section collapse

[Pyjong]

Hello,

First of all, MkDocs-Material is great! Finally documentation as I like it. Thanks!

Now to my question. I'm already happy as it is, but I guess it would be even nicer if the navigation wouldn't collapse after I click something in it. I know there is nav.expand but if it was possible to only keep those sections expanded that lead to currently viewed document that would be awesome. Is there perhaps a way to do that?

Thanks.

[squidfunk]

The navigation will always expand the path to the active page and collapse all non-active pages, except when using the navigation.expand feature flag, which will always expand all navigation paths, as you already noted.

This is also true for instant loading, as the whole navigation is always replaced. Material for MkDocs isn't a single-page application, so the state is generally lost/replaced. I agree that it would be ideal to keep the expanded/collapsed states, but it's not trivial to implement. You might try the MkDocs Windmill theme, which exhibits the desired behavior.

[Pyjong]

I see, thanks for the info!

[jcalabreseSH]

I saw the nav.expand options will expand the whole nav or we can chose to collapse However, I see only nested menu items collapse. Is there a way to get the main nav items to be collapsed.
For example: in this photo i would like to collapse Developer Portal and Cloud API

[squidfunk]

Yes, remove the navigation.sections feature flag.