Theme features not being applied?

[sei-rlehman]

I am setting up a documentation site for several applications. I want to use the navigation.tabs feature of the theme as used on your documentation site:

The site that that was generated when I ran mkdocs new . had a collapsible navigation panel on the left side.

I added the following to my mkdocs.yml per the "Setting up navigation" documentation

theme: material
  features:
    - navigation.tabs

However, this did not seem to take effect and my site still had the collapsible panel navigation element. After some troubleshooting I decided to pull down your repo and run the site locally. I made no changes to the repo, and I saw the same behavior with the collapsible left panel:

I am running this on Ubuntu 22.04 and using version 8.5.6 of mkdocs-material.

Any idea why I am seeing different navigation behavior on a local instance of your repo versus the public site you have at https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/

Thank you.

[sei-rlehman]

Ok so it was a resolution problem and I feel like a dummy. Increasing the resolution of my development VM on which I was viewing the site caused the navigation tabs to display like I expected.

Is that the expected behavior and is that documented anywhere?

[squidfunk]

From our documentation:

When tabs are enabled, top-level sections are rendered in a menu layer below the header for viewports above 1220px, but remain as-is on mobile.1 Add the following lines to mkdocs.yml: [...]

Could we make it clearer?

[sei-rlehman]

Thanks for the response. I saw the behavior on a default setup before any customization including tabs, so I was a bit confused when I saw that left-side navigation bar pull out - I guess I thought it was a different navigational element that was enabled and not just a response to low resolutions. Maybe being explicit about the navigation panel's behavior at low desktop resolutions somewhere would help. Or just leave it as is because who would have such a low-res desktop anyway :/

Great product btw - exactly what I needed.