Navigation

This guide will show you how you can customize your Doks project’s navigation.

Sidebar#

A well-organized sidebar is key to a good documentation as it is one of the main ways users will navigate your site. Doks provides a complete set of options to customize your sidebar layout and content.

Default navigation#

By default, Doks will automatically generate a sidebar based on the filesystem structure of your documentation, using each file’s title property as the sidebar entry.

For example, given the following file structure:

.
└──content/
└───docs/
├───guides/
│ ├───_index.md
│ └───example.md
reference/
│ ├───_index.md
│ └───example.md
└───_index.md

The following sidebar will be automatically generated:

Menu navigation#

In stead of using the default navigation, you can define sidebar_<section> entries in config/_default/menus/menus.<language>.toml — for example:

[[sidebar_docs]]
  name = "Guides"
  pageRef = "/docs/guides"
  weight = 10

[[sidebar_docs]]
  name = "Reference"
  pageRef = "/docs/reference"
  weight = 20

[[sidebar_docs]]
  name = "Resources"
  pageRef = "/docs/resources"
  weight = 30

Child sections — like guides and reference in the example above — will get automatically generated.

Settings#

Sections can be collapsed by default by setting the collapsed property to true in the frontmatter of a section’s _index.md:

---
sidebar:
  collapsed: true
---

Other main sections#

Sidebar navigation is also available for other docs based sections you create — for example when you run the following command:

npm run create -- --kind docs tutorials

pnpm run create --kind docs tutorials

yarn run create --kind docs tutorials

And add the new tutorials section to config/_default/params.toml:

# Doks (@thulite/doks-core)
[doks]
  # Nav
  sectionNav = ["docs", "tutorials"] # ["docs"] (default) or list of sections (e.g. ["docs", "guides"])

Main#

Define main entries in config/_default/menus/menus.<language>.toml:

[[main]]
  name = "Docs"
  url = "/docs/guides/example-guide/"
  weight = 10

[[main]]
  name = "Blog"
  url = "/blog/"
  weight = 30

Social#

Define social entries in config/_default/menus/menus.<language>.toml:

[[social]]
  name = "GitHub"
  pre = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon icon-tabler icon-tabler-brand-github" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="2" stroke="currentColor" fill="none" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"><path stroke="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"></path><path d="M9 19c-4.3 1.4 -4.3 -2.5 -6 -3m12 5v-3.5c0 -1 .1 -1.4 -.5 -2c2.8 -.3 5.5 -1.4 5.5 -6a4.6 4.6 0 0 0 -1.3 -3.2a4.2 4.2 0 0 0 -.1 -3.2s-1.1 -.3 -3.5 1.3a12.3 12.3 0 0 0 -6.2 0c-2.4 -1.6 -3.5 -1.3 -3.5 -1.3a4.2 4.2 0 0 0 -.1 3.2a4.6 4.6 0 0 0 -1.3 3.2c0 4.6 2.7 5.7 5.5 6c-.6 .6 -.6 1.2 -.5 2v3.5"></path></svg>'
  url = "https://github.com/thuliteio/doks"
  weight = 30

Footer#

Define footer entries in config/_default/menus/menus.<language>.toml:

[[footer]]
  name = "Privacy Policy"
  url = "/privacy/"
  weight = 10

Page#

The “On this page” (Table of Contents) section is automatically generated. You can set the levels you’d like to show in ./config/_default/markup.toml:

[tableOfContents]
  endLevel = 3
  ordered = false
  startLevel = 2