Sidebar should be open for module details pages.

[viceice]

What browser are you using?

Not relevant

Describe the bug

if we open a module sub page, like npm manager, the sidebar is closed, it should be open instead.

Steps to reproduce
goto https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/manager/npm/ and see closed sidebar

Additional context

[viceice]

Seeing same for platform

[HonkingGoose]

I think this is because those pages are not in the mkdocs.yml nav list.

[viceice]

I think this is because those pages are not in the mkdocs.yml nav list.

😕 So we need to add every single page? is there any other option to make this more generic?

[HonkingGoose]

Maybe we could autogenerate extra portions of the nav while we're building the site in the CI?

[HonkingGoose]

I confirm the problem is with the pages not being in the nav in the mkdocs.yml file.
Check the mkdocs build output when run on current main branch:

Click me to see `mkdocs build` output

gitpod /workspace/renovatebot.github.io (main) $ mkdocs build
INFO     -  Cleaning site directory
INFO     -  Building documentation to directory: /workspace/renovatebot.github.io/site
INFO     -  The following pages exist in the docs directory, but are not included in the "nav" configuration:
              - gitlab-bot-security.md
              - rust.md
              - security-and-permissions.md
              - self-hosted-experimental.md
              - setup-azure-devops.md
              - modules/manager/ansible/index.md
              - modules/manager/ansible-galaxy/index.md
              - modules/manager/argocd/index.md
              - modules/manager/azure-pipelines/index.md
              - modules/manager/batect/index.md
              - modules/manager/batect-wrapper/index.md
              - modules/manager/bazel/index.md
              - modules/manager/bitbucket-pipelines/index.md
              - modules/manager/buildkite/index.md
              - modules/manager/bundler/index.md
              - modules/manager/cake/index.md
              - modules/manager/cargo/index.md
              - modules/manager/cdnurl/index.md
              - modules/manager/circleci/index.md
              - modules/manager/cloudbuild/index.md
              - modules/manager/cocoapods/index.md
              - modules/manager/composer/index.md
              - modules/manager/conan/index.md
              - modules/manager/deps-edn/index.md
              - modules/manager/docker-compose/index.md
              - modules/manager/dockerfile/index.md
              - modules/manager/droneci/index.md
              - modules/manager/flux/index.md
              - modules/manager/fvm/index.md
              - modules/manager/git-submodules/index.md
              - modules/manager/github-actions/index.md
              - modules/manager/gitlabci/index.md
              - modules/manager/gitlabci-include/index.md
              - modules/manager/gomod/index.md
              - modules/manager/gradle/index.md
              - modules/manager/gradle-wrapper/index.md
              - modules/manager/helm-requirements/index.md
              - modules/manager/helm-values/index.md
              - modules/manager/helmfile/index.md
              - modules/manager/helmsman/index.md
              - modules/manager/helmv3/index.md
              - modules/manager/homebrew/index.md
              - modules/manager/html/index.md
              - modules/manager/jenkins/index.md
              - modules/manager/jsonnet-bundler/index.md
              - modules/manager/kubernetes/index.md
              - modules/manager/kustomize/index.md
              - modules/manager/leiningen/index.md
              - modules/manager/maven/index.md
              - modules/manager/meteor/index.md
              - modules/manager/mix/index.md
              - modules/manager/nodenv/index.md
              - modules/manager/npm/index.md
              - modules/manager/nuget/index.md
              - modules/manager/nvm/index.md
              - modules/manager/pip-compile/index.md
              - modules/manager/pip_requirements/index.md
              - modules/manager/pip_setup/index.md
              - modules/manager/pipenv/index.md
              - modules/manager/poetry/index.md
              - modules/manager/pre-commit/index.md
              - modules/manager/pub/index.md
              - modules/manager/pyenv/index.md
              - modules/manager/regex/index.md
              - modules/manager/ruby-version/index.md
              - modules/manager/sbt/index.md
              - modules/manager/setup-cfg/index.md
              - modules/manager/swift/index.md
              - modules/manager/terraform/index.md
              - modules/manager/terraform-version/index.md
              - modules/manager/terragrunt/index.md
              - modules/manager/terragrunt-version/index.md
              - modules/manager/travis/index.md
              - modules/platform/azure/index.md
              - modules/platform/bitbucket/index.md
              - modules/platform/bitbucket-server/index.md
              - modules/platform/gitea/index.md
              - modules/platform/github/index.md
              - modules/platform/gitlab/index.md
INFO     -  Documentation built in 3.70 seconds

Relevant quote from the mkdocs manual¹:

Any pages not listed in your navigation configuration will still be rendered and included with the built site, however, they will not be linked from the global navigation and will not be included in the previous and next links. Such pages will be "hidden" unless linked to directly.

Footnotes

1. https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/writing-your-docs/#configure-pages-and-navigation ↩

[HonkingGoose]

This issue and PR seems relevant here:

• Add an introduction page to modules renovate#28364
• docs: add modules introduction renovate#29038