[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: You can file a new issue in https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme/ and just add a link to this issue from GitHub in the description. -- nosy: +Mariatta ___ Python tracker

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

Glenn Linderman added the comment: Uh, thanks, I guess, but it wasn't marked out of date or resolved or closed when I commented. I haven't used the GitHub issue tracker. Sigh. There should be a link here to the issue that was copied there, to make it easy and obvious? -- nosy: -Mari

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: Really sorry, but this issue is now out of date, and the patch no longer applies. The Python documentation theme is now being tracked in https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme/ Perhaps bring up this issue there? Thanks. -- nosy: +Mariatta re

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

Glenn Linderman added the comment: Nice implementation of sticky sidebar. https://css-tricks.com/sticky-smooth-active-nav/#more-273952 I haven't looked at the patch, and don't know what R. David Murray doesn't like about how it works, but I find the Python sidebar extremely annoying because i

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

Batiste added the comment: So answer to your comments SilentGhost: I had a look at what Mozilla recommend. Their proposition of using position:sticky is interesting and probably possible for this use case but might require quite a bit of extra work. There is also the other suggestion to use s

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

Batiste added the comment: Minor typo fix. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44591/following-sidebar-3.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

Batiste added the comment: Here is a second patch which is improved in some ways: 1. removed the '.headerlink .headerlink' 2. when scrolling over the side bar the 'snappin' is disabled therefor it is rather easy to search and find the desired section or the search box 3. removed an error when c

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

R. David Murray added the comment: But thanks for the interest and writing the patch. Others may disagree with me and it may go in anyway :) -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

R. David Murray added the comment: -1. I don't like sites that do this, and don't want ours to be one of them. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

SilentGhost added the comment: I get the following warning in Firefox's Developer console: This site appears to use a scroll-linked positioning effect. This may not work well with asynchronous panning; see https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Performance/ScrollLinkedEffects for further

[issue28044] Make the sidebar in the documentation follow the section automatically

New submission from Batiste: Hi, Here is a small patch for the documentation that make the sidebar follow the headers while scrolling through a long page. http://imgur.com/UsrFAti Test on Chrome and Firefox. Seems to work like a charm. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentati