How to include the toctree in the sidebar of each page
Solution 1
You can customize your html sidebar in conf.py
.
The default html sidebar consists of 4 templates:
['localtoc.html', 'relations.html', 'sourcelink.html', 'searchbox.html']
In conf.py
you could change localtoc.html to globaltoc.html like this:
html_sidebars = { '**': ['globaltoc.html', 'relations.html', 'sourcelink.html', 'searchbox.html'] }
Since this in the end this will be used in HTML files, this should work on ReadTheDocs.
Solution 2
Including the 'globaltoc.html' has a drawback in that it doesn't show both the global and local toc for the page you're viewing.
It appears that others were irked about this limitation and resulted in the subsequent development of an extension to support a full toc in the sidebar, checkout: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-fulltoc
Solution 3
Nothing will appear in the "Navigation" section of the default Sphinx sidebar until you add the names of files that you want to scan for section headings to the toctree::
directive in your .rst
file.
For example, if you want all the headings of your index.rst
file to appear in the Navigation pane, write index
(without the extension) in the toctree::
list like so:
My Level 1 Heading
==================
Glorious content.
My Level 2 Heading
------------------
More content
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Contents:
index
The crucial bit is adding index
right there at the end. If you're like me, you start your projects with the auto-generated template from sphinx-quickstart
, which (at time of writing) populates your .rst
files with EMPTY toctrees.
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Travis Bear
Updated on June 08, 2022Comments
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Travis Bear about 2 years
I'm generating html documentation in Sphinx.
How do I modify the sidebar for each of the html pages in my document so that they include the toctree? By default the toctree only seems to display in the
master_doc
page, and only in the main area instead of the sidebar.Is there an easy way to do this? I'll be using readthedocs to host the generated documentation, so I would prefer to avoid the use of any third-party plugins, unless they are also available on readthedocs.
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alexanderlukanin13 over 6 yearsThis works great! But I had to
pip install --upgrade setuptools
first, otherwise it failed to install with a weird error:AttributeError: '_NamespacePath' object has no attribute 'sort'
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Chris about 6 yearsI currently get this error reported when readthedocs tries to install this.
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dbailey about 6 years@Chris I suspect github.com/sphinx-contrib/fulltoc/issues/14 is the cause of this, I'll look into shortly.