[PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation: html: show sections in the sidebar
Antonin Godard <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:59:34 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.documentation |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The current sidebar in the HTML version of the documentation does not display the section titles because the toctree directives in the top-level index.rst document do not contain ":caption:" properties. Replacing the current section titles by ":caption:" properties would not allow having text between those and the table of contents. To workaround this issue, add the ":caption:" properties in the toctree calls which makes them show up in the sidebar, but hide them from the index page with a custom CSS addition. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <[email protected]> --- Documentation/index.rst | 8 ++++++++ Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst index c0cf79a87c3a..a9eba8187de6 100644 --- a/Documentation/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/index.rst @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ community and getting your work upstream. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + :caption: Working with the development community Development process <process/development-process> Submitting patches <process/submitting-patches> @@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ kernel. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + :caption: Internal API manuals Core API <core-api/index> Driver APIs <driver-api/index> @@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ Various other manuals with useful information for all kernel developers. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + :caption: Development tools and processes Licensing rules <process/license-rules> Writing documentation <doc-guide/index> @@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ developers seeking information on the kernel's user-space APIs. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + :caption: User-oriented documentation Administration <admin-guide/index> Build system <kbuild/index> @@ -88,6 +92,7 @@ platform firmware. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + :caption: Firmware-related documentation Firmware <firmware-guide/index> Firmware and Devicetree <devicetree/index> @@ -98,6 +103,7 @@ Architecture-specific documentation .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 + :caption: Architecture-specific documentation CPU architectures <arch/index> @@ -111,6 +117,7 @@ to reStructuredText format, or are simply too old. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + :caption: Other documentation Unsorted documentation <staging/index> @@ -120,6 +127,7 @@ Translations .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 + :caption: Translations Translations <translations/index> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css b/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css index 5aa0a1ed9864..0576d4fcb2a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css +++ b/Documentation/sphinx-static/custom.css @@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ div.kerneltoc li.current ul { margin-left: 0; } div.kerneltoc { background-color: #eeeeee; } div.kerneltoc li.current ul { background-color: white; } +/* + * Hide toctree captions on the welcome page, they should only be shown in the + * sidebar. + */ +section#the-linux-kernel-documentation p.caption { display: none; } + /* * The CSS magic to toggle the contents on small screens. */ -- 2.55.0